TIL Professional Disc Golfer Ken Climo holds the record for the most Professional Disc Golf Association World Championships (12), and he did it while holding down a full-time job as a carpenter in his hometown of Clearwater, Florida
https://roguediscs.com/blog/the-story-of-disc-golf-legend-ken-climo
TIL that in the United States, it is illegal to remove or destroy a nest that has eggs in it or young birds still dependent on it for survival. It is also illegal for anyone to keep a nest they take out of a tree or find on the ground unless they have a permit.
https://www.fws.gov/story/bird-nests
TIL Gary Oldman is now credited with playing the leaders of two different countries during World War II. (Winston Churchill in The Darkest Hour and Harry Truman in Oppenheimer)
https://www.looper.com/1279760/who-plays-president-harry-s-truman-in-oppenheimer/
TIL: #ReleaseTheFullTrainCut Mission: Impossible 7’s Train Sequence Was Originally 90 Minutes Long
https://collider.com/mission-impossible-dead-reckoning-train-sequence-90-minute
TIL The "Burly Brawl" scene (Agent Smith vs Neo) in the Matrix Reloaded cost $40 million
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Matrix_Reloaded#Filming
TIL NBA Hall of Famer Elgin Baylor, the city of Elgin, North Dakota, and the town of Elgin, South Carolina, were all named after the Elgin National Watch Company, which itself was named for its factory location in Elgin, Illinois
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elgin_National_Watch_Company#Later_history
TIL During WW2 the Germans built a fake wooden airfield with wooden aircraft’s, vehicles and hangars, in order to trick the allies. The RAF, having known about it for months, patiently waited for them to finish before dropping a fake wooden bomb on the site
TIL The Southern Flannel Moth larvae (aka, "asp caterpillar"), distributed throughout Central America, Mexico and the Southern US, is venomous. Touching the caterpillar results in an immediate reaction that victims have said feels like a broken bone or a searing, red-hot pain.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megalopyge_opercularis
TIL about disappearance of Alfred Loewenstein. In 1928 world's third richest person disappeared mid flight while travelling on his private plane.
https://aspectsofhistory.com/the-very-strange-death-of-alfred-loewenstein/
TIL that horses originated in the Americas. They spread to Eurasia, but then became extinct in America 12,000 years ago. They were only reintroduced in 1519 with the arrival of Spanish conquistadors.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equus_(genus)
TIL it's been over 10 years since the last EF5 tornado
TIL a candidate running for Governor of Tokyo is required to put up three million yen--around $21,500--to the Tokyo Metropolitan Government that will only be returned if they receive at least 10% of the votes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governor_of_Tokyo
TIL that the first recorded vending machine was invented by Hero of Alexandria, an ancient Greek engineer, in the first century AD. It dispensed holy water in exchange for a coin.
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/68270/worlds-first-vending-machine-dispensed-holy-water
TIL that in the Milgrim experiment, participants in the study were told by a scientist to administer electric shocks to a test subject (a confederate) if he got a memory question wrong. 65% of the subjects chose to give a "lethal shock" when told to.
https://nature.berkeley.edu/ucce50/ag-labor/7article/article35.htm
TIL Zurich's historic Semper Observatory showcases around 300 measuring instruments, sundials, astrolabes, and the telescope that astronomer Rudolf Wolf used to count sunspots. Wolf was a pioneer in the topic of sunspot research
TIL an Islandic company named Kerecis makes skin grafts from fish skins (of North Atlantic cod caught in Icelandic waters). The fish-skin graft is approved by the FDA as well as European regulatory authorities
TIL that in full retirement at age 63, Rockefeller earned over $58 million in investments in 1902.
https://wikipedia.org/wiki/John_D._Rockefeller
TIL: London has the most foreign-born people of any city in the world at 40%
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_born
TIL the median age in Japan & Germany is 48 years old, which is 10 years older than in the US
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_median_age
TIL in 2013 two Iranian F-4 Phantoms attempted to intercept a drone escorted by two F-22 Raptors. Due to having a bumblebee-sized radar cross-section, an F-22 was able to fly underneath an F-4 to see its weapons without it noticing then flew next to the F-4 and radioed "you really ought to go home."
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/f-22-stealth-fighter-flew-under-iranian-f-4-phantom-…
