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TIL In 1983 A man once naked from the waist down, walks down an aisle of a meeting room with his penis erect and invites members of the audience to touch his erection. That man is Giles Brindley showing of his results of his new invention: Viagra.

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rRA5x TIL of the “availability heuristic,” by which people judge the likelihood of events based on the number of times they hear about them. Explains why many people are pessimistic about the world given the amount of media coverage available, which favors bad news.
78MgX TIL the person who named the 'pacific': Ferdinand Magellan
788Mr TIL the Royal family apparently weigh themselves before and after Christmas dinner
nerob TIL in the early 1930s the Irving family on the Isle of Man claimed to be haunted by Gef the Talking Mongoose who would throw stones, ride the bus for the gossip and sing bawdy renditions of "Home on the Range." He described himself as “the fifth dimension...the eighth wonder of the world!”
YpJZv TIL there are dairy farms with cows trained to use automatic milking machines, which will milk the cows automatically whenever the cow feels like it. The machines will even remember each cow individually, and push them out if they've been there too recently.