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TIL Incubators Were Once Displayed in Freak Shows to Save Premature Babies

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oReBW TIL that Vanilla Ice had a nu metal album in 1998 called Hard to Swallow, and it featured a remake of ice ice baby entitled, “Too Cold”.
Z8EwQ TIL of the "End-of-History Illusion". The perception that you have reached a maximum of personal growth, your potential, and that no new personal maturing will happen in the future.
l7aZV TIL: Cahuide was an Inca nobleman who defended the Sacsayhuaman fortress from the Spanish and allied Indians in 1536. A brave captain, he fought to the bitter end, choosing to jump from the tower rather than surrender.
xa5k TIL some U.S. bars and restaurants have been misleading patrons by replacing their standard 16-ounce pint glasses with nearly identical looking 14-ounce glasses
M7P6a TIL: that bananas are actually berries