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TIL: Movable Type was first invented in China in the 11th Century

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Gly5 TIL if North Korean Olympic gymnasts don’t win medals, they are sent into labor camps
ZwyQ TIL that the Rhinoceros Party was a registered party in Canada led by Cornelius, a rhinoceros, and promised to repeal the law of gravity and change Canada’s currency to bubble gum, so it could be inflated or deflated at will.
kO8dW TIL Larry Bird got bored halfway through a game and decided to challenge himself by only shooting left handed. He scored 20 points using only his left hand.
9w6Br TIL that some scholars believe Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa is a self portrait, with Da Vinci cross dressing
l8rV TIL of the greatest flood the world has ever known - the Missoula Floods. It created the Scablands in WA in as little as 48 hours where at one point was the largest and most powerful waterfall in the history of the Earth.