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TIL There’s a Back to the Future Musical

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R5RX1 TIL rowing increases parts of the heart to enlarge so it can pump more blood. Because of its similarities to strength training, the exercise increases blood pressure and strengthens heart walls as well. Most sports only show one change or the other, but rowing shows both.
yYmM TIL that 350 million years ago the Earth was covered by giant mushrooms. They would grow up to 26 feet high and 3 feet wide.
mxWbp TIL of Ski Valley at Sangre de Cristo in New Mexico, which has "Tree Martinis" to calm the nerves of the skiers heading down the mountain.
JY1Ak TIL during a François Hollande speech two people got shot accidentally, when a police sniper securing the event from a roof top unintentionally discharged his weapon
QJgoa TIL in 2011, a 75 year old Georgian woman accidentally cut off internet access to almost all of Armenia while scavenging for copper to sell as scrap