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TIL a nurse watching TV saw a lump on the host neck and saved the host life!

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lxlG TIL when fed up with Congress then-senator Davy Crockett said “You can all go to hell, I’m going to Texas.” shortly before his death at the battle of the Alamo.
DQapV TIL that Anne Frank's stepsister is still alive. Eva Schloss and her family lived in the same apartment block as the Franks, and she often played with Anne and Margot. She and her mother survived Auschwitz, and her mother resumed her friendship with Otto Frank after the war. They married in 1953.
XEXbj TIL da Vinci was given a vineyard as payment for making The Last Supper, which was bombed in WW2, and the DNA of those vines is being used to recreate the wines he had
YpJw7 TIL that masochism is named after Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, an activist for women's and Jewish emancipation, who enjoyed being a slave to dominant and cruel women dressed up in furs
8aVOa TIL that hairdresser/archaeologist/YouTube personality Janet Stephens taught herself to recreate ancient Roman and Greek hairstyles by studying the back of a bust of Roman Empress Julia Domna’s head at Walters Art Museum and finding a footnote for the definition of the Latin word acus, or needle.