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TIL box jellyfish have 24 eyes. 8 of them are image-forming and structurally similar to human eyes, while the other 16 are thought to sense only the intensity of incoming light from all directions.

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g0g4 TIL the US Air Force accidentally dropped two atomic bombs 260x more powerful than Hiroshima on North Carolina but a low-voltage safety switch prevented disaster.
lo84a TIL Martin Luther King, Jr., was actually born Michael King, Jr. His father, also a minister, changed his and his son's name to Martin Luther when he was five, after the famed Church Reformer.
OGxeR TIL the first time a person was charged with drunk driving using an EV was on 10 September 1897
b9Kd9 TIL: An Alaskan husky in the Iditarod will burn about 9,666 calories each day; a rate of caloric burn 3.5 times that of a human Tour de France cyclist. The aerobic capacity of a typical Iditarod dog is three times that of a human Olympic marathon runner.
njZG TIL there was a subspecies a human known as homo florsiensis which went extinct only 12,000 years ago. They grew no larger than 4 feet tall and have been nicknamed “hobbits” by scientists.