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TIL of The Business Plot of 1933, a failed attempt to overthrow FDR and install a dictator. Led by a covertly bankrolled Wall Street coalition of affluent businessmen

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6EYMJ TIL about Baijiu the most consumed distilled liquor in the world. This traditional Chinese liquor is said to be the most consumed spirit in the world, but only a small amount is found outside the country’s borders.
5Ypvn TIL The alto clarinet is considered an endangered species of the American band. Music publishers, composers do not include or write parts for alto clarinet and a musician from Alaska believes he is the only professional player in a long time to play it seriously as a chamber and solo instrument
nO1o TIL of the Japanese Smoking paradox. The rate of lung cancer is lower in Japan than in the US despite a higher rate of smokers in Japan
0w145 TIL New research published in Science Advances proposes that dinosaurs were actually warm-blooded creatures. Team of scientists from Yale Uni studied the arrangement of atoms in dinosaur eggshells to determine that the mothers who carried the eggs had warmer body temperatures than their surrounding
YGYx TIL that 47% of male victims of domestic abuse are threatened with arrest. 21% are arrested.