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TIL You get red eyes in pictures because your pupil is just a hole and the flash reflects the blood in the back of your eyes

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9YgKM TIL: In 1967, India offered China 800 sheeps and 59 yaks to buy peace and to show the world that China can go on a war for petty issues and can't be trusted.
MeN8K TIL in 2005 a barber sold Neil Armstrong's hair, after giving him a haircut, for $3000. Neil Armstrong threatened legal action. Currently his hair is being sold at £399 for each half inch strand.
DQOjp TIL: Long Hundred is 120 and was previously referred to as Hundred in Germanic languages
7rdBp TIL Over a period of four centuries, the accumulated error of adding a leap day every four years amounts to about three extra days. Therefore, the Gregorian calendar drops three leap days every 400 years.
xVMnw TIL JK Rowling and Harry Potter actor Daniel Radcliffe sat together for a 53 minute long filmed conversation in 2010, discussing how the film changed both their lives. Radcliffe revealed that he had an allergic reaction to his first pair of Potter glasses as whiteheads appeared around his eyes