TIL actor Jim Rash, know for playing Dean Craig Pelton on the sitcom Community, won the 2012 Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar for Co-writing The Decedent's.
https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/2012
TIL, There is such a thing as a tin tabernacle, which is a prefabricated iron Church, and there is also a 500 ton cast-iron church in Istanbul.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tin_tabernacle
TIL Every year, feral cats kill 1.4 billion native animals in Australia
TIL: During the Medieval period, Divorce by combat which is depicted in the 1467 German book, Fechtbuch. The wife is given 3 rocks in a sling due to her husbands physical advantages while the husband is given a club and is forced to stay in a hole.
http://www.aemma.org/onlineResources/trial_by_combat/combat_man_and_woman.htm
TIL the phrase “Keep Calm and Carry On” was created in WWII to improve British morale
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keep_Calm_and_Carry_On?wprov=sfti1
TIL Because darker-skinned people have a very low risk of skin cancer, using sunscreen for skin cancer prevention is not necessary. However, sunscreen can still off their aging effects from sun
https://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/the-science-of-sunscreen
TIL: The national animal of Scotland is the unicorn. Yes, you read that right! Although unicorns are mythical creatures, they hold a special place in Scottish folklore and symbolism.
https://www.nts.org.uk/stories/the-unicorn-scotlands-national-animal
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/151hrgd/til_the_national_animal_of_scotland_is_the/
TIL of Stephen Hawking's reply to Einstein's famous quote "God does not play". He replied "Not only does God play dice but he sometimes confuses us by throwing them where they can't be seen."
https://www.hawking.org.uk/in-words/lectures/does-god-play-dice
TIL Ron Artest Applied For Job At Best Buy During His Rookie Season To Get Employee Discounts
https://www.thesportster.com/news/ron-artest-job-best-buy-employee-discounts/
TIL: 95% of Nevada, the driest State in the United States, is classified as a "cold desert climate"
https://www.nps.gov/grba/learn/nature/deserts.htm
TIL NBC offered a role to James Gandolfini to replace Michael Scott on "The Office", but HBO paid him $3 million to not take the role
https://www.indiewire.com/features/general/james-gandolfini-rejected-the-office-hbo-1234651311/
TIL the 'Barbie' Movie used so much of the colour Pink, that it caused a Global shortage of Pink Paint?
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/barbie-movie-pink-paint-shortage-180982321/
TIL the length of a day on Mars has been known to the nearest 3 minutes since 1666. But the exact length of a day on Saturn remained a mystery until 2019.
https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/814/scientists-finally-know-what-time-it-is-on-saturn/
TIL that Jim Crow wasn't a real person, but a caricature of a black stereotype played by a white man in blackface named T.D. Rice in the mid 1800s.
https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/who-was-jim-crow/
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/151fcrb/til_that_jim_crow_wasnt_a_real_person_but_a/
TIL Willow Creek, California is known as " Bigfoot Capital of the World" and has a Bigfoot Museum housing 30 plaster cast footprints, including one measuring 16 inches. It is close to Bluff Creek, where the famous Patterson Gimlin Bigfoot footage was filmed
https://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/12680
TIL US government is putting together a team to disclose existence of "non-human intelligence" to the public. The team will include 1 current or former foreign service official, 1 scientist or engineer, 1 economist, 1 professional historian and 1 sociologist.
https://www.democrats.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/uap_amendment.pdf
TIL after Hitler met Franco in 1940, he told Mussolini: "I prefer to have three or four of my own teeth pulled out than to speak to that man again!"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meeting_at_Hendaye
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/151erg7/til_after_hitler_met_franco_in_1940_he_told/
TIL Clowns have a special way of "copyrighting" their particular facepaint by painting their likeness on eggshells.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/gallery-london-houses-dozens-clown-egg-portraits-180968914/
Til A man with delusions of being the president had became leader of Estonia. He then went about banning all political parties, illegally postponing elections since the public was “Sick-minded”, while replacing the congress with the chamber of commerce. He would later die in a mental hospital.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Era_of_Silence
TIL Christopher Walken still doesn't have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_stars_on_the_Hollywood_Walk_of_Fame