Today

b6bEZ TIL Joan Collins claims she divorced her 3rd husband Anthony Newley due to starring in the X-rated musical "Can Heironymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness?", which he produced, directed, wrote, and starred in.
LQGL0 TIL that the Crow tribe supported the United States in their war against the Lakota, their enemies. They mourned the death of Custer and his men, and it was said that the people of the tribe could only sleep peacefully without fear of Lakota attacks after the final defeat of the Lakota.
grbKX TIL the size of the Chinese Navy in quantity of warships surpassed the US between 2019 and 2020.
0dxEA TIL of the Jasper Fire (2000) in South Dakota. The largest fire in the state’s history (83,508 acres), was caused by a woman who dropped her match upon lighting a post-piss cigarette
j6bpR TIL: the sun rotates at different speeds by latitude because it's a gas ball
M7pLA TIL that ifyou removed all the empty space from atoms, the entire human race could fit into a sugar cube.
5VRKr TIL that in July 1946 the inflation rate of Hungary peaked at 41,900,000,000,000,000% (41.9 quadrillion percent) a month. This meant prices were doubling every 15 hours.
x6npb TIL poinsettias being poisonous is largely an urban legend spreading from early false stories and reporting. An attempt to determine a poisonous dose of poinsettia to rats failed, even after reaching experimental doses equivalent to consuming 500 leaves, or nearly 1 kg (2.2 lb) of sap.
4kWaR TIL George Harrison was the producer for the A-side of Monty Python's "The Lumberjack Song"
nWMp9 TIL Cleopatra VII (7th, the famous one) was the first in her entire dynasty to actually learn Egyptian. As a descendant of the Ptolemies, her bloodline was overwhelmingly Macedonian Greek, yet she was one of the first in her family to blend Greek and Egyptian identities in a serious way.
9wXLr TIL that the Babylonian emperor Hammurabi used wind power for his irrigation project in the 17th century BC
W7bOX TIL that according to a study measuring actual gas and smell, women’s farts were shown to contain higher concentrations of hydrogen-sulfide — the chemical responsible for the classic “rotten egg” stench — than men’s.