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TIL Hawaii has permafrost in an area that surprised scientist as the mean air temperature is well above values that usually support permafrost

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6xGm TIL that an ancient Carthaginian explorer discovered the Gorillas and thought they were “savage people”.
wLerJ TIL then 13 year-old Danielle Lei, a Girl Scout in San Francisco, was the first Girl Scout to make news by selling cookies outside a marijuana dispensary. She sold 117 boxes in 2 hours.
ne0xB TIL about St Dunstan in the East, a London church destroyed in WWII and turned into a beautiful open roof garden
XE70P TIL about the Fundamental Attribution Error, a concept that describes how we blame others when bad things happen to them, but blame the external situations when bad things happen to us.
EOrV TIL the NFL earns revenues of $9 billion and doesn’t pay taxes. This is because in 1966, the phrase which allowed “business leagues, chambers of commerce, real-estate boards, boards of trade” as non-profits was changed to include “or profession football leagues”.