P1Dpg TIL that in 1996, Annie Leibovitz sued Paramount Pictures for copyright infringement. She alleged that an ad depicting a nude and pregnant woman with Leslie Nielsen's head was IP theft. The SDNY ruled it was parody and protected by fair use laws. US Court of Appeals affirmed the ruling in 1998
epbA6 TIL of Nandy, a disabled Neanderthal skeleton found in Iraq who suffered blindness, major hearing loss, a missing arm, and other serious healed injuries that likely left him unable to care for himself. Despite this he lived into his 40s, suggesting he was supported and cared for by his community.
VBbp0 TIL while Gaddafi was in Italy for the World Food Summit he hired 200 models to attend a party. But instead spent the entire night lecturing them on Islam before giving them copies of the Koran and his political book.
X0bpk TIL 99% of human history happened in prehistory (before the invention of writing). It’s the longest period of human history, lasting for 3.4 million years
OGv5a TIL not happy with the lighting for footage while filming Top Gun, the director asked the captain to turn the carrier. The captain said it would cost $25,000 so the director wrote a check on the spot
69wBQ TIL that the BBC offers their news in pidgin language, too
wo4EY TIL The names "Little Boy" and "Fat Man" do not refer to the nuclear bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki specifically, but were instead names for the bomb designs used.
R5ypa TIL that on May 2017, an engineer improperly activating an uninterruptible power supply at a data center resulted in a power outage at that data center, which resulted in 75000 British Airways passengers being stranded over a 3 day period during a holiday period.
W7bpL Today I learned that in the 2000's, the people in charge of Sesame Street's budget wanted the show to have 25 episodes per season, but the show's staff insisted upon doing 26 episodes per season so that each letter of the alphabet would be the letter of the day for one episode.
9wXvp TIL Michael J. Fox's middle name is Andrew.
nWMoW TIL in the 13th century a Hungarian friar discovered a group of Magyars living in the original Hungarian homeland, still speaking the a mutually intelligible dialect despite 400 years of separation. When he returned four years later, the area had been devastated by Mongols
4kWKX TIL a female wolf has 318 bones. A male wolf has one extra bone.