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TIL Jason from the Friday the 13th is unmasked in nearly every film and has had a different looking face each time

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rNaex TIL Astrophysicist Jonathan Lane was the first to demonstrate with math that the Sun is a body of gas, in his 1870 book "On the Theoretical Temperature of the Sun". Lane’s law states that as a gaseous body contracts, the contraction generates heat
xNBb TIL in 1934 King George V said in response to the growing power of the Nazi Party that Germany was now the peril of the world, and that should it carry on at its present rate, there was bound to be a war within 10 years.
woVd6 TIL that Sirhan Sirhan, convicted assassin of Robert Kennedy, was granted parole last year and almost got out but Governor Newsom blocked his release in January 2022.
5nXp TIL Tom & Jerry ends with Tom & Jerry presumably committing suicide.
M7Je0 TIL Vancouver pioneer ’Gassy’ Jack Deighton’s statue was pulled down by activists in historic Gastown in 2022. Gassy Jack married a 12-year-old Indigenous girl named Xaliya at age 40, who ran away at 15 after giving birth to their son. Xaliya lived to 90 and still has descendants