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TIL our brain stems, inherited from amphibian ancestors, still spurt out odd signals producing hiccups that are essentially the same phenomenon as gill breathing.

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WGyd TIL there is a mathematical formula that suggests that the emergence of life is inevitable
MeGOa TIL there is a cave in Romania that has been isolated for 5.5 million years and contains more than 30 species that exist nowhere else in the world, that had been leaving with an air different than ours.
1aALD TIL Skinny Puppy, a Canadian band sent a bill to the US military requesting $666,000 in royalties for playing their music as torture for Guantanamo Bay's prisoners.
LQMkd TIL that Moroccan troops fought on both sides of the First Indochina War.
Kvea TIL A Florida man was once wrongfully imprisoned for 21 years for killing his seven children with poison. He was released when the children’s babysitter confessed in a nursing home.