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TIL NASA officially banned consuming Alcohol in space in 1972 after sherry was proposed for Skylab meals, but it never really went away. “NASA will tell you there is no alcohol aboard the ISS” says astronaut Clayton Anderson. “As a person who lived there for five months, I’ll tell you that’s bogus."

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Ev5V TIL that a professor in Japan found that lightning strikes can double the size and amount of mushrooms in the wild. He decided to research this based on how consistently the myth of this phenomenon was found throughout the world. They suspect the electricity powers an enzyme that spurs growth.
yVy9p TIL In 1969, the two factions involved in the Nigerian Civil War agreed to a 48-hour ceasefire so they could watch Pelé play an exhibition game in Lagos.
RJM1 TIL before 1996, English courts had a “year and a day” rule where if it takes someone longer than a year and a day to kill someone then it is not counted as murder.
b9yEQ TIL that the U.S. Military listed all the songs they played for Manuel Noriega in Operation Just Cause (1989, Panama) in an after action report and the military took requests from service members on the ground in Panama
gM4M8 TIL that functioning ‘mechanical gears’ were seen in nature for the first time. Previously believed to be only man-made, a natural example of a functioning gear mechanism has been discovered in a common insect - showing that evolution developed interlocking cogs long before we did.