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TIL "Accuracy" is the ability to hit a target, "Precision" is the ability to achieve the same results over and over. You can be accurate without being precise, and precise without being accurate.

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v15Lr TIL Napoleon's worst defeat may not have been Waterloo. In a scene worthy of Monty Python, Napoleon was forced to flee a swarm of rabbits that they were supposed to be hunting. The organizers of the hunt mistakenly purchased domesticated rabbits; the bunnies "attacked" the party expecting treats.
EAdx TIL Minecraft’s creator, Markus Persson, had severe OCD and needed everything to be placed in its own square on a grid in his mind, leading to the cubic design of the game we know today.
ADyLn TIL about Carl Tanzler, a radiology technologist at the Marine-Hospital Service in Key West, Florida. He developed an obsession for a young Cuban-American tuberculosis patient. In 1933, almost 2 yrs after her death, Tanzler removed her body from its tomb, & lived w the corpse for 7 yrs.
nWKg9 TIL that to some non Americans, American chocolate like Hershey's tastes weird or gross because it contains butyric acid, which is the main chemical responsible for the smell of human vomit, rancid milk, and parmesan cheese
rR69M TIL about mental health: after 83,000 brain scans, Dr. Daniel Amen says the most important lesson learned is that many people have problems with their brain, but a lot of them can be easily fixed if scanned and treated, rather than blindly prescribing intense medication