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TIL drag queen and actor Divine was an inspiration for Ursula in Disney's 'The Little Mermaid'

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xVLWg TIL Ducks should be fed frozen peas instead of bread.
D1JxJ TIL the term c-note originated in the 1930s taken from the Roman numeral C (for 100)
DQMBD TIL during Brazil’s independence war there were supporters in Portuguese Angola who went as far as declaring independence and a confederation with Brazil, before being suppressed by Portuguese troops.
D1YDe TIL that honey bees are the first insect known to grasp the concept of zero. Study shows that honey bees can learn and apply the concepts of greater than and less than to interpret a blank stimulus as representing the conceptual number of zero and place zero in relation to other numerical values.
woEME TIL there is a garbage patch in the Atlantic ocean that is three times the size of France.