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TIL that at any given second there is a body-wide war being fought amongst germs in your body.

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PbQL TIL animators and fx artists for Disney’s Frozen were sent to Jackson Hole, Wyoming to experience walking, running, and falling in deep snow. Both male and female personnel tried on long skirts to see how they interacted with the snow.
N6bN TIL the element cobalt is named after a German sprite called a kobold, which was blamed for polluting mines. Kobolds are also the basis for a race of creatures in Dungeons & Dragons that live in mines and pollute the ore.
GYAk7 TIL the bodies of Robert Falcon Scott and two others are entombed under 75 feet of ice within the Ross Ice Shelf and will reach the ocean in 275 years, perhaps floating away in an iceberg.
GYyY4 TIL Aerosmith Earned More Money from Guitar Hero Than From Sales of Their Albums
PYbaZ TIL:New research finds there is no “right thing” to say when you want to be supportive. Trying too hard to say the right thing could actually lead you to make “clumsy statements that do more harm than good”. Your “mere presence and sympathy is likely enough”.