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TIL More than half of bus shelters in Dubai are air-conditioned.

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W7wW8 TIL that the first recorded hack occurred in 1903. While Guglielmo Marconi was publicly demonstrating his new "secure" wireless telegraph, rival inventor Nevil Maskelyne managed to broadcast rude poems to the receiver, accusing Marconi of "diddling the public".
v1xrB TIL there are lights which can track your location using your cell phone
8e0nV TIL about proton beam therapy, a type of radiotherapy that uses a beam of high energy protons, to treat highly specific types of cancer.
wlKE TIL roughhousing with your kids is good for them.
1aknd TIL Buddy Holly's pregnant wife María Elena learned about his tragic death from a news report and suffered a miscarriage shortly after due to the psychological trauma.