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TIL All carrots were purple before the 17th century

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OGOdR TIL Cristiano Ronaldo does not drink alcohol. He even received libel damages over a Daily Mirror article that reported him drinking heavily in a nightclub while recovering from an injury in July 2008.
EA1X TIL It is likely that Brutus was Caesar’s first son and that Caesar might have suspected it before being assassinated by him.
VMD5p TIL about the three grand soups, a Japanese term referring to the 3 best soups in the world: Borscht, Bouillabaisse, shark fin soup, and tom yam kung. There is no consensus about which of the 3 out of 4 are the true grand soups.
688l TIL that LBJ had a buzzer installed in the Oval Office to warn him when him when his wife was coming while having sex with other women.
e8Wb TIL that Lockheed Martin is currently developing an unmanned aircraft that is capable of reaching speeds exceeding Mach 20. Able to cross the United States in under 12 minutes