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TIL a man came to own a boat known as ‘Hitler’s Yacht’ and neo-nazi’s offered him $500,000 for it. Instead he gave it away to a Jewish group so that they could sink it and turn it into a reef.

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JYvBV TIL a century after the bloody and violent Hatfield–McCoy feud in West Virginia/Kentucky, the two families faced off again on the game show "Family Fued" in 1979. The teams received a mannequin for every match they won as the producers thought it would be funny to “litter the stage with bodies”.
KOO7Q Imagine yourself at a concert hall looking at a symphonic orchestra on stage. Have you ever noticed that high-pitched strings sit left of low-pitched strings? Going from left to right, one usually sees violins, violas, cellos and double basses. That is, one moves from high pitches on the left to low pitches on the right. Why? The orchestra’s arrangement is not a cultural oddity, like driving on the right side of the road. Rather, it is due to our own biological makeup. Higher pitches tend to be better processed by the left hemisphere of the brain, while lower pitches tend to be better processed by a similar region in the right hemisphere. This organisation is thought to have repercussions far beyond music, perhaps even helping to explain why language is mostly processed in the left hemisphere. So the part of my brain that better processes high sounds sits where the higher-pitched instruments sit: on the left. But that’s not the end of the story.
YpD6r TIL Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop sold "bio-frequency stickers" made of the "carbon material NASA uses to line space suits" they claimed would "rebalance the energy frequency in our bodies." When alerted to the product, NASA said their spacesuits weren’t even lined with carbon material.
VBYap TIL the Pan Am 747 destroyed in the worst aviation accident 45 years ago at Tenerife was coincidentally also the first 747 to make a commercial flight, the first 747 to be hijacked, was named Clipper Victor, and the Captain was Victor Grubbs
e0O4k TIL that the longest ever wedding veil was 6,962.6 m (22,843 ft 2.11 in)- that's approximately 293 tennis courts- and was laid down in rows on a field