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TIL United Airlines denied 3.5 billion dollars worth of employee pension

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d80jK TIL Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein, lost her virginity at a cemetery where she would secretly meet her future husband. After Shelley died, her family searched her desk and they found a copy of a poem written by her deceased husband, along with some of his ashes and the remains of his heart.
E1p9V TIL that the women of Bari tribe of Venezuela believes that a child can have multiple biological fathers. That, a child is not born from the sperm of a single man, but from the accumulation of sperm in a woman's womb.
dMpZ TIL that a higher percentage of free blacks owned slaves (28%) than free whites (1.4%).
9wQAG Today I learned that Pet Detectives are actaullay real!
69opQ TIL that Phil Collins played at both Live Aid concerts on the same day at Wembley Stadium and JFK