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TIL Vivipary, meaning "live birth" in Latin, refers to the premature germination of seeds while they are still inside or attached to the parent plant or fruit

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16OE8 TIL Post war Japan is basically the reason why Mecha anime exist in Japan, because it reflected Japan's desire to rebuild Japan after WW2.
165Ed TIL that Davy Crockett wasn't just a person known for the Alamo but also the name for a nuclear recoilless gun capable of launching a nuclear round with a yield of 0.02 kilotonnes.
eppXJ TILT there were (twin) pregnancies wherein the more developed kid pumps blood for both the twins (acardiac and cardiac), and the acardiac twin cannot reciprocate it in any way, therefore causing cardiac failure in the developed one.
x6ldo TIL Hell's Kitchen S1 winner, Michael Wray, struggled with pain and addiction during the show. He then lost his daughter, sending him slowly into a downward spiral to the point he was found crawling on the side of a highway near death.
neb9o TIL Frederick Douglass was the most photographed American in the 19th-Century