TIL white women get socially punished for dating outside their race, but white men do not get punished for doing the same thing.
TIL According to the National Hole-in-One Registry, the odds of the average golfer making a hole-in-one (or ace) are 12,500 to 1 but a Tour player has a 3,000 to 1 chance of making an ace.
https://www.pga.com/story/odds-of-a-hole-in-one-albatross-condor-and-golfs-unlikely-shots
TIL that the 1955 lemans was not cancelled midway after the accident because the crowds exiting the track they would have choked the main roads around, severely impeding access for medical and emergency crews trying to save the injured, and motorsports worldwide had a 1 year hiatus in respect
Today I Learned: In 1679 Papin invented his steam digester (pressure cooker), a closed vessel with a tightly fitting lid that confines the steam until a high pressure is generated, raising the boiling point of the water considerably. A safety valve of his own invention prevented explosions.
TIL 90% of American girls ow/have owned at least one Barbie.
https://www.museumofplay.org/toys/barbie/
TIL in 1927 the University of Michigan had two live Wolverines as mascots”Biff and Bennie”. However, they were so ferocious the players refused to carry them around and soon were too vicious to have in campus and were given back to the Detroit zoo.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biff,_the_Michigan_Wolverine
TIL There are consumers who are known as Harbingers of Failure. They have a knack for buying products that turn out to be market flops. "when the harbingers buy a product at least three times, it’s really bad news: The probability of success for that product drops 56 percent."
https://news.mit.edu/2015/harbinger-failure-consumers-unpopular-products-1223
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/150q89x/til_there_are_consumers_who_are_known_as/
TIL DHL got its yellow and red branding from a sponsorship deal with Formula 1 team Jordan Grand Prix
TIL of Juan Pujol García, a Spanish spy from WWII. After the British Army turned him down, he joined the Nazis, and became a double agent, working for the British. Juan is now one of the few people who have received both an MBE from King George and an Iron Cross from Hitler.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Pujol_Garc%C3%ADa
TIL that 7 out of the 10 deadliest shootings in U.S. history occured within the last 11 years.
TIL about Penske Media which owns Variety, Rolling Stone, Deadline Hollywood, Billboard, and The Hollywood Reporter and is the largest shareholder of Vox Media, which owns Vox, The Verge, Polygon, Eater, SB Nation, and NY Mag. It was founded by the son of the founder of the Penske trucking company.
TIL of the Shakahola Forest Cult which directed over 300 members to starve themselves to death to meet jesus
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakahola_Forest_incident
TIL that Phil Collins originally wrote “You’ll Be In My Heart” as a lullaby for his daughter, Lily Collins.
TIL the 2010 song Barbra Streisand by Duck Sauce was based on the 1979 song Gotta Go Home by Boney M. The Boney M Song was actually based on the 1973 song Hallo Bimmelbahn by the German band Nighttrain. The wooing vocal sound is meant to sound like a train.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMye-xqJSWQ
TIL Japan successfully floated balloon Bombs into the US during WW2, killing 6 people in Oregon "the war's only fatalities in the continental U.S". But, the US Government did such an effective job of covering it up, Japan thought the attack was a failure.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fu-Go_balloon_bomb
TIL about UTBAPHs, or buildings that "used to be a Pizza Hut".
https://pleated-jeans.com/2021/05/19/used-to-be-a-pizza-hut/
TIL a 53yr Patrick Stewart kissed a recently-turned 17yr old actress on the lips for a Star Trek episode that implied they had sex.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tapestry_(Star_Trek:_The_Next_Generation)
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/150n1yu/til_a_53yr_patrick_stewart_kissed_a/
TIL: In Texas, men still have to pay back child support even if the child is not theirs
https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/child-support/paternity/mistaken-paternity
TIL that there used to be life insurance vending machines At. The. Airport.
