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TIL Aristotle’s Eudemian Ethics, which is about happiness and what makes life worth living, was only published for the first time in a modern language in 2011

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mYOp TIL that Dr. Seuss, despite being an internationally renowned children’s author, never had children of his own, and even admitted that, “in mass, they terrify me.”
7r8ZX In this week’s Today I Learned, National Geographic Emerging Explorer Thandiwe Mweetwa explains how female lions synchronize their reproductive cycles so they have cubs around the same time.
R7ab8 TIL In 2001, a seven foot bull shark bit off a boy’s arm. His uncle not only saved the boy, but dived in after the shark, wrestled it to shore where the shark was shot, retrieved the boy’s arm and it was sewn back on in the hospital.
oJY TIL that in the original play and novel fairies in Neverland are extremely short lived and that, by the time of the epilogue set a year later, when Wendy asks Peter Pan about Tinker Bell he had completely forgotten she ever even existed.
KYoZJ TIL the country of Andorra has no airports or train stations.