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TIL pantone created a shade of red in 2020 called "Period" to help break the menstruation taboo.

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XENwE TIL that Memorial Stadium at the University of Illinois has a bulldozer underneath the field. During construction of the stadium, torrential rains caused a bulldozer to sink into the mud. Being too expensive to remove, the bulldozer remains buried beneath the field as of this day
OG8A1 TIL Chadwick (the discoverer of neutron) was a student of Rutherford (discoverer of proton) who was the student of Thomson (discoverer of electron).
dP4d TIL that the crown princess of Japan had to “practice shopping at the supermarket” before she was married and lost her royal status.
4kvG5 TIL The film The Thing (1982) initially received heavily negative reviews upon its release, only to later be considered a masterpiece.
v19DB TIL The Boston Light is the only manned lighthouse in the United States