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TIL You actually burn more calories in the cold weather than warm weather.

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9nYM TIL Scientists from South Africa discovered a formula that calculates how likely a frog is to eat another frog. “For every one millimeter increase in body size, a frog is 2.8 percent more likely to eat other frogs.”
Mwb7 TIL The concept of a spherical Earth dates back to the 6th century BC and it was confirmed by Hellenistic astronomy in the 3rd century BC
m1noM TIL about Tōxcatl, an annual Aztec festival which revolved around the sacrifice of a young man who had been impersonating their god Tezcatlipoca since the last Tōxcatl festival, and the selection of a new man to take that role in the year to come
78EJZ TIL that in 1987, orcas (killer whales) from three different pods in Puget Sound, adopted a trend of wearing salmon as hats.
RMla TIL that when boarding a train, a man who was mistaken for a terrorist suspect was held down by police and shot in the head seven times at point blank range. He was innocent.