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TIL In the span of less than 1 year, both President Richard Nixon and Vice President Spiro Agnew resigned from office for separate reasons

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14b4 TIL that John Ratzenberger, the actor who portrayed Cliff Clavin in “Cheers”, is the only actor to have portrayed a character in every Pixar film.
lEZK TIL Saddam Hussein had an entire Quran written with his blood. Islamic authorities don’t know what to do with it now, as it is a sin to write a Quran with blood and also a sin to destroy a Quran.
8aLvP TIL Jimmy Neutron never got cancelled. DNA Productions decided to make The Ant Bully, which did so poor in the box office it actually sent the whole company under in 2006.
1a1dd TIL of the "May Incident" during WW2 Congressman Andrew J. May revealed highly confidential information that US submarines were surviving Japanese depth charges because they were exploding at a too shallow depth. This leak later led to the deaths of 800 crewmen and 10 submarines
x6OM7 TIL an fMRI study mapping the female genitals onto the sensory portion of the brain found that nipple self-stimulation activates the genital sensory cortex, the same area as clitoral, vaginal, and cervical self-stimulation.