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TIL about the Library of Caesarea, a theological library founded in the 3rd century by the Christian philosopher Origen. It contained over 30,000 Christian manuscript and housed the first critical edition of the Hebrew Bible including a lost Gospel.

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0d80M TIL A hang-gliding world record was set in 1989 by Kevin Christopherson, who rode an updraft 287 miles (462 km) from Bairoil, Wyoming to North Dakota
wK4o TIL despite sharing the same oral language, British, Irish, Australian and American sign language are all completely different languages.
7dGr TIL the CIA had an operation called “Acoustic Kitty” in which they surgically implanted a bugging device into a cat, only to have it being squashed by a taxi on it’s first mission. The project was cancelled shortly after, having cost about $25M or over $185M adjusted for inflation.
J1WyB TIL the stapedius is the smallest skeletal muscle in the human body, measuring about 6 mm. It stabilizes the stapes; the tiniest bone. In cases of otosclerosis, the stapes can be replaced with a titanium prosthesis under general anesthesia to restore hearing.
0wA9v TIL Aristotle believed the universe had existed forever. Something eternal is more perfect than something created. He suggested the reason we see progress was that floods, or other natural disasters, had repeatedly set civilization back to the beginning