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TIL about the Widmanstätten pattern wich forms in asteroids and because of many factors including temperature, pressure, time and iron/nickel content, it's impossible to recreate on earth in the same way

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gr10X TIL when Pat Riley became the Head Coach of the Miami Heat in 1995, his contract didn't allow him to bring his own video coordinator which spared the job of the existing one. That video coordinator was Erik Spoelstra and in 2008 Spoelstra became Riley's successor as the head coach of the Heat.
pY4Ap TIL that the Lykov family, who fled religious persecution by the Bolsheviks and lived in isolation in the Siberian wilderness for four decades, were discovered in 1978, completely unaware that World War II had even taken place
16pmP TIL I learned that Post was the leader in cereal until the Great Depression when it pulled back on advertising. Kellogg overtook Post, in just one example showing companies should keep advertising during recessions
4kdJb TIL There is a rare deer species discovered by and named after Theodore Roosevelt's sons
OGZe1 TIL Larry David quit his writing job at SNL in the first season, only to show up to work two days later acting as though nothing had happened.