TIL: If you have just $4,210 to your name, you're still richer than half of the people on Earth.
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/01/how-much-money-you-need-to-be-part-of-the-1-percent-worldwide.html
TIL that Japanese great tits have a unique alarm call for crows, martens and snakes
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0003347213004661
TIL AMD offered to buyout Nvidia in the mid 2000s, with Jensen agreeing only under the condition of leading the combined company, thing which AMD refused, they went for ATI instead
https://www.techspot.com/news/47554-amd-approached-nvidia-before-ati-acquisition-in-2006.html
TIL someone patented a brass monkey arranged so that, when it got cold enough, its balls would freeze off
https://patents.justia.com/patents-by-us-classification/221/312C
TIL Gerard Way, lead singer of My Chemical Romance, is also a comic book writer of Eisner award-winning series The Umbrella Academy
TIL that the “Made in Germany” label was first introduced in Britain in 1877. It was done as a protectionist move to stop the market from being flooded by cheap German knock-offs of British products.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made_in_Germany
TIL in 1958 a nighttime training exercise resulted in a mid-air collision between an F-86 Sabre and a B-47 Startojet. To save the aircraft, the B-47 crew ditched their nuclear payload to save weight. The undetonated weapon is believed to have sunk near Tybee Island and remains unrecovered today.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1958_Tybee_Island_mid-air_collision
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/156oba7/til_in_1958_a_nighttime_training_exercise/
TIL that Sylvester Stallone directed the Saturday Night Live sequel "Staying Alive" that has Travolta's character following his dream of professional dancing and having flopped to the point that it's currently on Rotten Tomatoes 0% list.
https://bandsaboutmovies.com/2019/08/26/staying-alive-1983/
TIL in the 1987 movie Robocop, the city hall building of Dallas, Texas was used as OCP headquarters. Matte paintings were used to make the building appear taller.
https://gov.texas.gov/film/trail/dallas-city-hall#:~:text=Robocop
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/156nwpu/til_in_the_1987_movie_robocop_the_city_hall/
TIL roughly 1 in 22 Dodge Ram 2500 drivers have been cited with a DUI before, more than twice the national average of 1 in every 55 drivers overall.
TIL Picher, Oklahoma is the Most Polluted Place in America From Mining and Industry
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soGOu5NZ5S0
TIL Extinct Ivory Billed woodpecker sighting reported in SE USA in 2004. Cornell Lab leads the search
TIL about a thing called laminar flow. It happens when fluid flows in infinitesimal parallel layers with no disturbance between them, giving the impression that it is not flowing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laminar_flow
TIL that genghis khan although a brutal dictator paved the way for the modern postal system, and also granted freedom of religion
https://www.history.com/topics/asian-history/genghis-khan
TIL that the Beatles toured North America in 1964, playing 32 shows at 26 different venues in just 33 days. During the tour they made about $1 Million, which would be about $7.5 Million today.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-beatles-record-breaking-1964-north-american-tour/
TIL switzerland has a "marriage penalty" that leaves married, childless couples in a financial disadvantage
https://www.postfinance.ch/en/private/needs/money-in-simple-terms/what-is-the-marriage-penalty.html
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/156kl8h/til_switzerland_has_a_marriage_penalty_that/
TIL the Nokia 9000 Communicator was the first mobile phone with dial-up internet
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_9000_Communicator
TIL that the popular German television series "Derrick" is no longer rerun because it was discovered that the show's star Horst Tappert was a former SS soldier.
TIL that in the U.S. in 1902, more than half of new car registrations were for steam-powered cars. Steam engines were safe, reliable, and familiar, having already been used in trains and boats. However, they were heavy, slow to start (the water had to boil), and required constant attention.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_car
TIL: In 1863, a professor named William Henry Perkin was trying to formulate a cure for Malaria but instead he inadvertently created the first commercialized synthetic dye.
https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-Henry-Perkin
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/156jf88/til_in_1863_a_professor_named_william_henry/
