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TIL shaving unwanted hair does not make it grow back thicker or darker, one reason we believe this myth is because in young boys it might. But that’s because the shaving may overlap with the timing of natural hormonal fluctuations in his body that are developing his adult facial hair

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a80bA TIL About 'Project 100,000', a Vietnam era program to recruit 100,000 men a year to fight America's war in southeast Asia. Many of the recruits were illiterate, had IQs of less than 70, or suffered from other mental or physical impairments. Thousands of the recruits died in combat.
9YWj6 TIL animals can't make vitamin D in their skin because their fur or feathers shade it from the sun. In the oils secreted on their fur or feathers are the precursors, and after vitamin D is produced they lick it up when grooming.
rnee TIL that there is evidence that the British Admiralty deliberately send the luxury liner Lusitania into waters patrolled by German U-boats in the hope that the ship would be attacked and sunk with Americans on board, thus drawing the US into WWI. 1,198 people drowned, inc. many women and children
e0bBn TIL that the “Chinese gooseberry” was rebranded as the “kiwi fruit” when New Zealand began exporting them to the USA...during the Cold War.
9WVQ TIL that Michael Jackson, though he did not receive credit, wrote “Do The Bartman” after calling the producers of “The Simpsons” and offering to write Bart a number-one single.