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TIL Jackie Gleason improvised every time he said "Bang! Zoom!" in "The Honeymooners." The line was never in any of the scripts.

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1aReO TIL that heart break can cause severe physical pain and nausea. This is believed to be part of the survival instinct. The "social-attachment system" uses the "pain system" to encourage humans to maintain their close social relationships by causing pain when those relationships are lost.
OlbY TIL Buzz Aldrin punched a conspiracy theorist, Bart Sibrel, in the face for doubting he was on the Moon
lo7VB TIL Iceland has one of the largest gun ownership rates in the world, and yet has one of the lowest crime rates in the world.
rRRo TIL one nanosecond is to one second as one second is to 31.7 years
kJxJd TIL Yi Sun-Sin, the legedary Korean Admiral who who never lost a battle against Japanese, often defeating them against all odds, had never once commanded a naval battle before the beginning of that war. He was a cavalry officer who had only been in the navy for 2 years