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TIL that in 2012, researchers found that people who watch Fox News were less informed than people who didn’t watch news at all

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0d1y1 TIL that actress Alicia Witt's parents were found frozen to death in their Massachusetts home in December 2021.They refused help on home repairs repeatedly.
E1WGW TIL that for 5000 years, Europeans built huge magnificent cities, and lived in them, just to burn them to the ground every 75 years. People in current-day Romania, Bulgaria, Ukraine and the area, intentionally set their settlements on fire between 7000-2000 BC, for reasons still being researched.
jNNdE TIL that there's a small yet clearly defined generation between Gen X and millenials.
ADKLn TIL Father of US Navy Admiral John Paul Jones fouhgt his last naval battles in the area of present-day Ukraine
b6MW4 TIL of Captain Citrus, a fictional mascot based on Captain America from the Florida Department of Citrus, a state body tasked with promoting Florida's orange industry. Created in 2011 as "Ollie the Orange", Florida paid Marvel around $1 million in 2014 to redesign and publicly promote the character.