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TIL that popsicles were originally going to be named “Eppsicles” after their inventor Frank Epperson, but his children persuaded him into calling them “Pop’s ‘sicles”

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5YOln TIL In 1990 Sinéad O'Connor refused to give a concert in New Jersey, because the organizers insisted on playing the American National Anthem before her act. Frank Sinatra then threatened to "kick her in the ass" and New Jersey prohibited her from ever singing in that concert hall again.
oBxAW TIL that when you die you can have your remains turned in to a diamond. Carbon is extracted from your cremated ashes or hair and compressed to almost 900,000 PSI and subjected to temperatures of 2,500 degrees Celsius to form a bonding of the atoms.
M7PY8 TIL about Robert Carter III who in 1791 through 1803 set about freeing all 400-500 of his slaves. He then hired them back as workers and then educated them. His family, neighbors and government did everything to stop him including trying to tar and feather him and drove him from his home.
Wvp8 TIL that when Dave Hampton became the first Atlanta Falcon to rush for 1000 yards in a season in the last game of the 1972 season the game was stopped so the team could honor him. Soon after, Hampton was tripped up in the backfield on a sweep, losing five yards. He finished the season with 995 yards
xVZg0 TIL about drummer Jim Gordon; once one of the most sought-after session musicians in the recording industry as well as a member of Derek & the Dominoes, he is currently incarcerated at the California Medical Facility after having murdered his 72-year-old mother in 1983.