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TIL that Mo Rocca was a staff writer on the 90s children's television classic Wishbone

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loyw5 TIL during the Vietnam War, the North Vietnamese military had a sophisticated air force and anti-air defense system which destroyed 10,000 US aircraft (including 3,744 planes and 5,607 helicopters) and 1,018 South Vietnamese aircraft. The North Vietnamese only lost 170 aircraft.
pYeMO TIL Matthew Hopkins was Witch Finder General of England who hanged more "witches" than any other witch hunter.
N7aeP TIL There is a pornographic parody of the Seinfeld " Soup Nazi" episode
jNmEv TIL that we can put bacteriophages (viruses that only attack bacteria) into the human body to help kill harmful bacteria. This is called phage therapy.
awWG0 TIL: Viruses can live up to 18 days on steel, but only one on denim cloth. University of Iowa research