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TIL there are still people that speak Aramaic, or the language actually spoken by Jesus Christ, about 500,000 speakers are left worldwide.

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RbJ7 TIL The US Government dropped homemade bombs on coal miners during a rebellion in West Virginia that involved 10,000 Coal Miners, and 3000 Lawmen in 1921.
j6yMQ TIL about the Ham Sandwich Theorem, which states that states that given n measurable "objects" in n-dimensional Euclidean space, it is possible to divide each one of them in half (with respect to their measure, e.g. volume) with a single (n − 1)-dimensional hyperplane.
wokQ8 TIL U.S. Government Amassed 1.4 billion lbs of cheese in reserve and a large portion of it is stored underground in Missouri
w0DJ TIL that Moscow street dogs display specialized behaviors that differentiate them from domesticated dogs & wolves: pack leaders tend to be the most intelligent rather than the strongest, and packs tend to deploy its cuter members first, as they are more successful in begging for food from people.
5g8R TIL Donald Trump took out full-page newspaper ads in 1989 calling for the execution of 5 alleged rapists who were all minors and later turned out to be innocent