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TIL that fake oil paintings can be detected because of nuclear bombs detonated in 1945 because of the fact that isotopes such as strontium-90 and cesium-137 that can be found in oil did not exist in nature previously. If a picture contains these isotopes, it is certainly painted after year 1945

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PY4mL TIL Carl Wieman, recipient of the 2001 Nobel in Physics, delivered a lecture outlining how he created a new state of matter called Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC). Einstein predicted BEC in 1925, and Wieman's techniques to make it in 1995 involved laser cooling and magnetic trapping on atoms
RYG8 TIL Birds have two fovea, meaning they can switch between focusing on their central vision and their peripheral vision. You never know when a bird is looking directly at you.
mxEwp TIL when babies first start emoting, they sometines turn away in the middle of smiling at you because they're so overwhelmed by joy that they can't handle all the emotion and have to regulate by looking somehwere else. This is known as 'Gaze Aversion' and is used to reduce their heartbeats.
9lW7 TIL that the longest filibuster was performed by Strom Thurmond, a South Carolina senator in opposition of the Civil Rights Act of 1957. He talked for 24h and 18 min non-stop.
0dZbv TIL Shrek 2 was the highest-grossing movie released between 1997 and 2008 in North America, outperforming every Harry Potter, Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, Spider-Man, and Pirates of the Caribbean movie to come out during that period