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TIL That a woman joined a missing person's search party, only to discover that she was in fact searching for herself

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J1yJk TIL many people hear voices and music in white noise. This is known as auditory pareidolia or “musical ear syndrome.”
JO41 TIL that while serving time in prison, rapper Tupac Shakur was asked for his autograph by a skinhead who said it was for his younger cousin. Tupac obliged, later saying that it made him feel like he accomplished something.
0LQR TIL the skin of a female shark is much thicker than that of a male because males bite females during mating.
e07Rk TIL that 1986s Howard the Duck box office failure lead the films producer (George Lucas) to be so badly in debt that he had to sell he just-launched computer-animation division to his friend, Steve Jobs of Apple.That same year, Jobs renamed the company to Pixar.
O9la TIL Tipu’s Tiger is an 18th-century mechanical toy created for the Indian king, Tipu. It compromised of a tiger savaging a near life-size European man who emitted a wailing sound from his mouth.The king frequently amused himself with this representation of victory over the English.