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TIL the often-quoted idiom “seeing is believing” leaves out half of the original sentence. The full quote from 17th century English clergyman, Thomas Fuller, is “Seeing is believing, but feeling is the truth.”

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ANrBB TIL that more than 16 million official U.S. military personnel records were destroyed when the sixth floor of the National Personnel Records Center caught fire in 1973. The archive did not have a sprinkler system, smoke detectors, or firewalls
x67B1 TIL: That the inventor of the Airplane and the Inventor of Cheez-Its lived across the street from each other. We were touring Orville Wright's home and learned that their neighbor across the street was Weston Green, who invented Cheez-Its.
7rD7p TIL that there was once a two-foot triangle of private property in the middle of New York City, due to bizarre planning decisions in the early 20th century.
rmrx TIL That in the early 1970s Chile experimented with a centralised computer network that would provide live economic data for “managing resources, detecting problems before they arise, and to experiment with economic policies”. It was destroyed when Pinichet’s regime took power before completion.
QJwbE TIL textbook costs are up more than 1000% since the 1970's. Publishers claim that new digital technologies drive down those costs. Affordability advocates tend to blame publishers and claim the new technologies are an attempt to maintain a stranglehold on the textbook industry disguised as reform.