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TIL of Shibari, a term for erotic bondage inspired by Japanese aesthetics. This style of bondage involves tying a person up using visually intricate patterns with several pieces of thin rope, usually emphasizing the person’s physical features.

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b9aVN TIL A raccoon in Germany broke into a zoo exhibit housing 7 other raccoon's. Since the raccoon is considered an invasive species the zoo could not legally release the vagrant raccoon and had to let him stay in the zoo.
N79xQ TIL | Olympic divers shower after each dive because the shock of going into the water and then out of the water so quickly can cause muscle cramps. The showers help alleviate this issue.
X0QND TIL lightning balls that phase through walls and explode can show up rarely and without reason
gr5pb TIL: The Parker space probe is the fastest man-made object ever. It reached 394,736 miles per hour (635,266 km per hour) on its mission hurtling around the Sun. That's nearly 400 times faster than a fighter jet and 500 times faster than the speed of sound!
gMB9D Today I learned that an advanced civilization called the Cahokia once existed along the Mississippi and Ohio rivers in the modern day United States