TIL Canada developed the Ross Rifle because the British wouldn't give them Lee-Enfields during the 1899–1902 South African War. After the war the British urged Canada to switch to the Lee-Enfield but Canada refused. Ross Rifle proved ineffective in WW1 and Canada switched to the Lee-Enfield in 1916.
https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/ross-rifle
TIL That the Nokia 1100 is the world’s best selling mobile phone
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_mobile_phones
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/154nq2o/til_that_the_nokia_1100_is_the_worlds_best/
TIL about the captivating paradoxical scene in "The Shawshank Redemption.
TIL-the song Discord my the living tombstone is not about the social platform.
TIL that poultry legs are called drumsticks because they were given this nickname when ancient musical drumsticks looked like a turkey leg.
https://patch.com/virginia/mclean/who-named-drumstick
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/154ma9o/til_that_poultry_legs_are_called_drumsticks/
TIL about Gödel's Loophole. While studying for his American citizenship test, Kurt Gödel believed he had found a flaw in the US constitution that would permit the American democracy to be legally turned into a dictatorship. Einstein advised him not to mention it during the test.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del%27s_Loophole
TIL Unilever became big as a colonial power with an area 2.5 times Belgium and mostly forced labor
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huileries_du_Congo_Belge
TIL that Hispano Suiza is back to making cars
TIL that Joseph Smith, the founder of Mormonism, was the first U.S. presidential candidate to be assassinated
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Smith_1844_presidential_campaign
TIL about Ota Benga - a young boy from Congo who was kidnapped at the beginning of the 20th century to be held at a zoo with monkeys.
TIL about Black Holes,the mysterious celestial entities that captivate astronomers and astrophysi cists alike.These cosmic phenomena are formed when massive stars collapse under their own gravity,creating a region in space with intense gravitational force that nothing,not even light,can escape grasp
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_hole
TIL that the character Uncle Jesse from “Full House” was originally named “Adam Cochran” during production, but at the request of actor John Stamos, who is Greek-American, the character’s name was changed to Jesse Katsopolis.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Full_House_and_Fuller_House_characters#Jesse_Katsopolis
TIL Arizona driver licenses don’t need to be renewed until the resident is 65 years old; the same license can be used for 5 decades
https://www.myimprov.com/arizona-drivers-license-does-expire/amp/
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/154hm0v/til_arizona_driver_licenses_dont_need_to_be/
TIL about the existence of Microsoft Excel eSports: Players are given a series of problem-solving tasks they must complete using an Excel spreadsheet, and points are awarded based upon how accurate their solutions are
https://www.pcworld.com/article/559001/the-future-of-esports-is-microsoft-excel-and-its-on-espn.html
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/154fy0m/til_about_the_existence_of_microsoft_excel/
TIL Mountain lions, pumas, panthers, and cougars are all the same animal - the Puma Concolor
TIL a study showed that using 600mg/week of testosterone enanthate, an anabolic steroid, can improve lean muscle mass even in men that don't exercise at all. The men who received testosterone but didn't exercise gained more lean muscle muscle mass than the men who exercised and received a placebo.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anabolic_steroid#Body_composition_and_strength_improvements
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/154e38w/til_a_study_showed_that_using_600mgweek_of/
TIL - People with sickle cell can be more prone to have prolonged erections.
TIL in 1941, more than three million cars were manufactured in the United States... only 139 more would be made over the next 4 years of World War II
https://www.pbs.org/kenburns/the-war/war-production/
TIL Robert Oppenheimer thought highly of physicist Hans Bethe and chose him to head the Theoretical Division at Los Alamos. After the War, Bethe declined to participate in developing thermonuclear weapons as he believed that the world would not be worth preserving after a war with such weapons
https://www.osti.gov/opennet/manhattan-project-history/People/Scientists/hans-bethe.html
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/154atak/til_robert_oppenheimer_thought_highly_of/
TIL "chucking" is an illegal bowling action in the sport of cricket when a bowler straightens the bowling arm when delivering the ball, but after biomechanical testing showed that all bowlers flex their extended arms to some degree, rules were then changed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Throwing_(cricket)
