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TIL; Flushing a toilet with the lid down could reduce airborne particles by as much as 50%.

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VMopm TIL that the first known juvenile to be sentenced to death and executed in the territory of today's United States was guilty of bestiality; Thomas Granger of the Plymouth Colony was hanged for sodomizing "a mare, a cow, two goats, divers sheepe, two calves, and a turkey."
KOO1E Your brain is likely reverse-engineering a reason
JY1jV TIL that Facebook is blue because Mark Zuckerberg is Red-Green colorblind and blue is the richest color he sees.
b1Kj TIL that there is an area where the Earth’s crust is missing, exposing the mantle
woNo TIL that a Man-O’-War is neither a jellyfish nor a single creature. It is a colonial organism made up of small creatures called zooids.