TIL Tampa, FL Had Never Reached a True Temperature of 100° F Until July 27, 2025

TIL that in a neuroscience study, lab mice tried to revive unconscious cage-mates by grooming them, sniffing, and pulling on their tongues- behaviors resembling first aid.

TIL that TV dinners were invented as a way to use up 260 tons of leftover, frozen turkey that Swanson didn't know what to do with after Thanksgiving.

TIL the Falkland Islands used to have a native wolf called the warrah that was so friendly and unafraid of humans it would literally swim out to greet boats. Settlers wiped it out in the 1800s bec...

TIL, Misirlou, a music that became famous on the western world with Pulp Fiction, is not actually a composition from Dick Dale, but has ancient origins on the ottoman empire and has been played an...

TIL that the laser sight used in The Terminator (1984) was a prototype that needed 10,000 volts to turn on. To use the weapon on screen, production hid a battery in Arnold Schwarzenegger's jacket ...

TIL that there was no authentic record of Beethoven's date of birth, but the registry of his baptism on December 17, 1770, survives, and it was customary to have infants baptized within 24 hours o...

TIL A capitonym is a word whose meaning changes according to whether or not it is capitalized ("Sue" vs "sue", "March" vs "march", etc.)

TIL: According to an obscure medieval legend, the Countess Margaret of Henneberg, a Dutch noblewoman, was punished by God for insulting a poor beggar woman carrying twins and believing her to be a...

TIL Ed Toutant lost at the $16K question on 'Who Wants to Be a Millionaire' because it was a flawed question. Therefore, he was invited back on & given a second chance, with the jackpot set ba...

TIL There is no globally accepted or clinical definition of a nootropic

TIL that archaeologists discovered a 2,000‑year‑old brain from Pompeii that was transformed into glass when Vesuvius erupted 👀

TIL that when Pokémon was being localised for the US, Nintendo of America staff proposed redesigns for "cute" Pokémon, including a tiger-like Pikachu with "huge breasts". Satoru Iwata refused to s...

TIL that Eurasian brown bear (Ursus arctos arctos) is the bearest of all bears – "ursus" means bear, and "arctos" also means bear, so the scientific name translates to "Bear bear bear"

TIL - Mauritius has a Species of pigeon called the Pink pigeon, it came very close to extinction in the 20th century however conservation efforts have kept the species alive and growing.

TIL Sharks existed before trees - sharks have been around for over 400 million years, while trees evolved about 350 million years ago.

TIL that researchers have found that some cells the body produces in response to cancerous tumours in the nervous system contain trace amounts of naturally occurring morphine.

TIL the Netherlands Forensic Institute can detect deepfake videos by analyzing subtle changes in the facial color caused by a person’s heartbeat, which is something AI can’t convincingly fake (yet)

TIL 9 individual households own 15% of Silicon Valley’s total wealth, and 90 households own 71%.

TIL in 2009 Canadian transport minister John Baird sent a text saying “Thatcher has died”. This information soon reached Canadian PM Stephen Harper with officials making multiple calls to Downing ...