TIL one of the Marlboro Men was named Dick Hammer

TIL about Trans Australia Airlines Flight 408 where in 1960 an Australian pilot punched an armed hijacker and disarmed his bomb

TIL about CAPTCHA farms: AI pays humans pennies to prove they’re human

The third highest-ranking person (highest-ranking woman) in the Tibetan Buddhist hierarchy is a high-ranking Chinese cadre and has, as a result, been accused of "collaborating" with China

Today I learned that the motto of the Habsburg Monarchy was A.E.I.O.U. (Austriae est imperare orbi universo (All the world is subject to Austria))

TIL that most phone calendars lets them change your input and contact people without your permission-even most fdroid apps

Keith Richards wrote 'I Can't Get No Satisfaction' in his sleep

TIL that flint stone is a biogenic rock, which means it was created from organisms

TIL that Fibonacci used his famous sequence to try to calculate the population growth of rabbits (bun alert?)

TIL that the population of Israel is less than 10 million

TIL github doesnt support IPv6

TIL St. Urho's Day was a made up saint, probably to extend St. Patrick's Day celebrations..

[Transhumance!] Why Donkeys and mule nannies carry lambs down Italian mountains - BrightVibes

Venezuela has the largest oil reserves in the world (by a lot)

TIL The Scottish Highlands, the Appalachians, and the Atlas are the same mountain range

(TIL) Michelangelo forged an ancient sculpture and sold it to a cardinal, but was caught.

TIL: A Bob the Builder version of Mambo No. 5 topped the UK charts, before being removed from radio play due to its lyrics about building construction and that it was charting during September 2001

TIL in the early 1960s, the United States shot 480 000 000 copper needles into space

TIL about the Tanganyika laughter epidemic - Wikipedia

You can count past 1,000 on your fingers by using binary, instead of just 10

TIL that this is the bird sound a cuckoo clock is imitating

TIL how tall buildings are

TIL that Jakarta is now world's largest city

TIL about the Babushka Lady who filmed jfk assassination

TIL There was an English painter called Fanny Palmer (b. 1812)

TIL about the 2018 US Prison Strike, an attempt by prisoners to end US Prison Slavery

TIL about the Congress for Cultural Freedom (CCF), an anti-communist organization created by the CIA to sway Intellectual opinion against communism

TIL the Handling of Human Waste In The Sky

TIL about abogen. A tool to generate audiobooks from EPUBs, PDFs and text with synchronized captions.

TIL The ability to count is universal in the animal kingdom. Birds do it, bees do it, even educated fleas do it.

TIL about The Lobby, a 2017 Docuseries about AIPAC, whose second series was blocked

TIL why you're not supposed to cook or drink hot tap water - it's the lead (and other heavy metals)

TIL that there was a man named William Patrick Hitler, a man who could have been a Nazi prince yet instead became an American veteran who helped defeat his uncle's empire.

TIL for nearly a thousand years, the ancient world’s most popular and admired comedian was Menander of Athens. Ironically, his work was lost to history until 1952, when a single play was rediscovered

TIL that if you translate the Septuagint (around 247 BC) straight from Greek, it mentions Jesus. The English version changes the name.

TIL About the 1985 MOVE bombing, where the Philadelphia Police Department bombed and burned 61 houses, murdering 11 and leaving 250 homeless

TIL About the Jeju Massacre, where South Korean forces wiped out 10 percent of the island of Jeju for the crime of organizing a General Strike

22 months later

TIL that Sacramento CA hosts a heavy metal and rock festival every year.

TIL I want to go to South Korea and ride a Sky Capsule

TIL A group of Irish grocery workers banning grapefruit led to Ireland being the first county to pass BDS against Apartheid South Africa

TIL Girls of the Kayan tribe start wearing neck rings at around 5 years old. The rings can stretch their necks to a length of about 15 inches (38 cm).

TIL The Addams Family was originally a cartoon that ran for decades until the author, Charles Addams, died. Also, he was friends with Ray Bradbury.