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TIL the film Minority Report started out as a sequel to Total Recall

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xxWk TIL de Lafayette “hero of two world’s” was invited by Pres. Monroe to go on a 3 month tour visiting every state in the US in honor of the 50th Anniversary of the US, he was met by cheering crowds everywhere, and brought Thomas Jefferson to tears at their reunion.
N7omb TIL that the first person of color to ever be vice president of the United States was Charles Curtis, VP to Herbert Hoover who was of American Indian tribal citizenship
7GZx TIL the brain registers the anticipation of math—but crucially, not math itself as physical pain.
R5x17 TIL that before becoming the mayor of Flavortown, Guy Fieri was a TV pitchman for car mufflers
R570a TIL in the 1896 Olympics the winners received a silver medal and second place received a bronze medal.