TIL that the singer of the 90s alternative rock band Presidents of the United States of America is now a children's singer named Caspar Babypants
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caspar_Babypants
TIL that in WW2 the Japanese had a secret bio-warfare research unit called Unit 731 that performed lethal human experimentation, including infecting captives with the plague, STDs, performing vivisections without anesthesia and more. An estimated 200k - 300k people were brutally murdered.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/14we6r0/til_that_in_ww2_the_japanese_had_a_secret/
TIL: Icelanders do not have family surnames. Instead their "last name" is always the first name of their father (i.e. Johannsson, or Johanndottir).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icelandic_name
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/14wds16/til_icelanders_do_not_have_family_surnames/
TIL-Rain can affect your wireless internet connection due to rain fade, which absorbs some of the signal coming from the transmitter because its wavelengths are at a similar frequency to satellite, WiFi, and 4G and 5G signals.
https://www.earthlink.net/blog/can-bad-weather-affect-your-wifi-or-internet/
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/14vxxpg/tilrain_can_affect_your_wireless_internet/
TIL: Communism exists in the stock market
https://moneymojo.beehiiv.com/p/mutual-funds
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/14vxdjv/til_communism_exists_in_the_stock_market/
TIL that the divorce rate of Navy Seals is over 90%/The average length of a marriage is 8 years
https://www.midlifedivorcerecovery.com/sixteen-divorce-statistics/
TIL that it's called "splooting", when squirrels and other animals lay flat to cool themselves down.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splooting
TIL about Juliane Koepcke. At age 17 she spent 11 days alone in the Amazon rainforest after her plane broke apart & scattered the passengers. She knew how to give first aid & survive in the wilderness because she'd been homeschooled in a rural area, so unlike the others she survived her journey out.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juliane_Koepcke
TIL many US companies in the late 1800s-1938 would pay their employees in company scrip, a currency issued by the employer and can only be used in company owned stores where they upcharged exorbitant amounts, keeping employees in debt, to ensure company "loyalty."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_scrip
TIL that the Soviet Tupolev Tu-4 bomber was a rivet-by-rivet reverse-engineered copy of the American B-29, based on four B-29 aircraft captured in 1944.
TIL that shorthand was invented circa 65 BCE, by Marcus Tullius Tiro, a slave owned by Cicero. His shorthand system was used extensively for the next 600 years, and some parts of it are still used today - ampersand (&), etc, et al, eg and ie.
TIL that shorthand was invented circa 65 BCE, by Marcus Tullius Tiro, a slave owned by Cicero. His shorthand system was used extensively for the next 600 years, and some parts of it are still used today - ampersand (&), etc, et al, eg and ie.
TIL that the Soviet Tupolev Tu-4 bomber was a rivet-by-rivet reverse-engineered copy of the American B-29, based on four B-29 aircraft captured in 1944.
TIL that shorthand was invented circa 65 BCE, by Marcus Tullius Tiro, a slave owned by Cicero. His shorthand system was used extensively for the next 600 years, and some parts of it are still used today - ampersand (&), etc, et al, eg and ie.
TIL that shorthand was invented circa 65 BCE, by Marcus Tullius Tiro, a slave owned by Cicero. His shorthand system was used extensively for the next 600 years, and some parts of it are still used today - ampersand (&), etc, et al, eg and ie.
TIL that shorthand was invented circa 65 BCE, by Marcus Tullius Tiro, a slave owned by Cicero. His shorthand system was used extensively for the next 600 years, and some parts of it are still used today - ampersand (&), etc, et al, eg and ie.
TIL that shorthand was invented circa 65 BCE, by Marcus Tullius Tiro, a slave owned by Cicero. His shorthand system was used extensively for the next 600 years, and some parts of it are still used today - ampersand (&), etc, et al, eg and ie.
TIL after Persian Emperor Khosrau I sacked Antioch in 540 he founded the city of Weh Antiok Khusrau, which translates to "better than Antioch, Khosrau built this."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weh_Antiok_Khosrow
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/14tbo38/til_after_persian_emperor_khosrau_i_sacked/
TIL Upon the death of the Dalai Lama, a search for his reincarnation is conducted where a child is identified through a series of 'tests' before being recognized as the succeeding Dalai Lama. The current Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, is the 14th.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalai_Lama
TIL Movie star Charles Bronson was often cast as a character with Asian/half Asian ancestry. In reality his parents were of Lithuanian Tatar origins, an ethnic group that originated in Turkey but settled in Poland and Lithuania.