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TIL the dinosaurs featured in the film Pee Wee’s Big Adventure are now part of a Creationist Museum that claims the earth is around 6,000 years old.

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JGnk TIL that In Idaho, if you commit perjury that leads to the execution of an innocent person, you can be executed for that.
6EDZZ TIL that the CocaCola-Mentos reaction is not a chemical but a physical reaction. Gas dissolved in CocaCola needs a surface to form on. We can increase that surface by adding Mentos. The microscopic surface of Mentos is quite rough, so it allows a lot of gas to form and it creates a lot of pressure.
R5rxQ TIL that even after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, with Japanese leadership still in disagreement over surrendering, the Allies executed the largest and longest bombing campaign of the Pacific War, with 1014 aircraft used.
KOM74 TIL that a male tiger retaliated against a group of poachers who killed his mate and cub.
naar TIL Many people at Disney didn’t think The Lion King would be a success. It is the highest-grossing hand-drawn film in history.