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Today I learned that John Urschel, offensive line guard for the Baltimore Ravens has a BS and Masters in mathematics from Penn State, and just finished his first 4 classes of his PhD program in spectral graph theory, numerical linear algebra and machine learning. With straight As.

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R7VVj TIL: In Back to the Future, the theatre in the background behind the clock tower shows "Orgy American Style" being shown. This is an actual porno from 1973. The male star from that porno played Red the Bum in the film, calling Marty a crazy drunk driver when returns to the present.
alRM TIL China has lost control of its first space station. It will be entering Earth’s atmosphere in 2017, and there is a chance that parts of the station could survive the burn, falling to Earth and causing damage or injuring people
yVk6l TIL that there are more trees on Earth than there are stars in the Milky Way galaxy.
BX9y TIL junk mail companies are charged more money if you send their mail back.
MVxV TIL abundant suicide in teenage girls was thought to be directly caused by lack of early marriage (in other words “sex”) and that a man’s penis kept her healthy