OGXOL TIL between 1999 and 2015, 736 UK Post Office workers were wrongly convicted for stealing money due to faulty accounting software. Workers were forced to pay back nonexistent losses with their own money and some were even sent to jail for a crime they did not commit.
69rlY TIL Einstein’s famous tongue-out photo was taken on his 72nd birthday, after a long day of smiling for photographers, when he was tired of posing, so he stuck out his tongue instead.
wogDJ TIL that the final payment on German debts in regards to World War One reparations was made on October 3rd, 2010.
R5Pew TIL the first Hollywood film to feature a majority Asian cast was Flower Drum Song (1961). The second film to do so was The Joy Luck Club (1993). The third film to do so was Crazy Rich Asians (2018).
W7BrX TIL Ben Affleck’s habit of ad-libbing annoyed Kevin Smith so much during Chasing Amy that Smith told him to write his own script. Affleck ending up co-writing Good Will Hunting with Matt Damon and won an Oscar.
9wEBr TIL the largest sporting disaster in history was in Ancient Rome, where 50,000 people died after an amphitheatre collapsed in 27 CE
nWgD9 TIL in 1994 Jim Carrey became first actor to headline three number one movies at the box office in the same year with Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, The Mask, and Dumb and Dumber
4klPR TIL there are over 8,330 different vehicle license plate choices in the US, with Maryland leading the most options at 989 plates.
x6gmb TIL about banker's rounding, where a half-integer is rounded to the closest even integer. For example, 0.5 is rounded to 0, and 1.5 is rounded to 2. This is intended to remove the bias towards the larger number that comes with rounding 0.5 up during approximate calculations.
epv54 TIL England and Ireland had sumptuary laws preventing lower classes from eating, drinking and dressing like the typical elite class, after the economic boost to peasants post the black death plague.
VBrNp TIL that Mangos have a very caustic sap when you pick them. It contains urushiol, terpinolene and resin acids. These can cause severe burning to your skin and could send you to the ER. Urushiol is also found in Poison Ivy and Cashews.
X0YBr TIL that Bryan Cranston's father, Joseph Cranston, abandoned the family during Bryan's youth after being unable to get enough acting jobs to support them. They would not meet for another 11 years. In 1988, Bryan would star in 'The Big Turnaround' which was directed by his very own father Joseph