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TIL In 2010, Drs. Torres and Luckham debuted their spray-on fabric in a fashion show at Imperial College London. The science was inspired by traditions of textile-making, like felt, where fibers are bound instead of stitched or woven.

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NXAP1 TIL the boom in mathematics during the 17th and 18th centuries in the Western world is correlated with the development of artillery and the increasing need for military professionals, especially artillerists, to be skilled in mathematics
69yGl TIL that a sphincter muscle, similar to the one humans use to hold in gases, prevents water from entering the blowholes of marine mammals.
aw0JJ TIL during the manhattan project Albert Stevens was injected with plutonium without his knowledge or explicit consent. He survived over 20 years, accumulating a total radiation dose of 64 Sv - the highest known in any human being.
p8aOZ TIL that after Charlotte Corday was executed by guillotine, a man lifted her head and slapped it on the cheeks, an expression of unequivocal indignation then appeared on her face suggesting that victims of the guillotine may retain consciousness for a short while
PY1pw "Snow leopards are relics of the ice ages, adapted to extreme cold, to blizzards and vertical slopes, and are rarely seen below 6,000 feet. Their pelts are smoky white with ashy rosettes. Their eyes, sliced by vertical feline pupils, are the color of hoar frost. Half of their six-foot-long bodies consists of a magnificent tail: a thick, furry balancing rod for a cat that can leap 30 feet through the air."