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TIL that goldfish are more closely related to humans than to sharks

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RDJ9 TIL that April 8th is Draw A Bird Day. It is observed to honor a 10 year old girl who was killed in 1946
Zmpp TIL Dave Matthews’ older sister, Anne, was murdered in 1994 by her husband, who later killed himself. Dave and his sister Jane then began to raise Anne’s kids.
ADYrn TIL of Julie d'Aubigny, a 17th century French swordswoman and opera singer who was challenged to duels by three different noblemen after kissing a young woman at a society ball. She beat all 3 of them. She was later sentenced to death by fire for kidnapping and arson. She survived that too!
NXxJ6 TIL In “The Silence of the Lambs” (1991), the skull on the movie poster is actually made of naked women – Salvador Dali’s “In Voluptas Mors.”
WQmd TIL if an electron were the size of our solar system, it would differ from a perfect sphere by less than the width of a human hair