TIL Disney/Disneyland formulated 2 specific colors (Go Away Green and Blending Blue) to help “erase” backstage buildings and camouflage parts of the park that are under construction.
https://insidethemagic.net/2022/02/disney-go-away-green-lp1/
TIL that 1. Sir Jason Kenny 2. Sir Chris Hoy 3. Sir Steve Redgrave and 4. Sir Mo Farah who have respectively the most, 2nd most, 3rd most and 4th most olympic gold medals for Great Britain share the same birthday 23rd March (exactly 9 months after 23 June International olympic day)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Britain_at_the_Olympics#Medals_by_individual
TIL that shortly before or after the armistice of World War I, all 22 monarchs of the German Empire abdicated or stepped down
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_German_monarchs_in_1918
TIL that 1. Sir Jason Kenny, 2. Sir Chris Hoy, 3. Sir Steve Redgrave and 4. Sir Mo Farah who have respectively the most, 2nd most, 3rd most and 4th most olympic gold medals for Great Britain share the same birthday 23rd March (9 months after International olympic day)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Britain_at_the_Olympics#Medals_by_individual
TIL about structural colouration. ‘Structural coloration in animals, and a few plants, is the production of colour by microscopically structured surfaces fine enough to interfere with visible light instead of pigments…’
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structural_coloration
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/15j2nrz/til_about_structural_colouration_structural/
TIL Georgia Tann, the “creator” of adoption, started by stealing babies from the poor and selling them to prominent socialites making millions in the process.
https://historydaily.org/georgia-tann
TIL Stetson cowboy hats are made of fur
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/15j039z/til_stetson_cowboy_hats_are_made_of_fur/
TIL about how scientists taught monkeys the concept of money. Not long after, the first prostitute monkey appeared.
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/15izubr/til_about_how_scientists_taught_monkeys_the/
TIL the 1986 film "Space Camp" was famous for being a marketing nightmare, being released shortly after the Space Shuttle Challenger accident.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceCamp
TIL 988 is a general counseling number, not strictly a suicide hotline; Americans don't need to be suicidal or in the pits of despair to get free counseling. Any stress counts, and it even supports texting!
https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/is-the-new-988-suicide-hotline-working/
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/15ixj55/til_988_is_a_general_counseling_number_not/
TIL when his movie Mr. & Mrs. Smith was going over budget, director Doug Liman dug into his own savings account and built a set in his mother's Upstate New York garage. And then blew it up with a hand grenade.
https://www.vulture.com/2021/01/how-locked-down-got-harrods-to-let-a-film-crew-in-its-vaults.html
TIL: Toad the Wet Sprocket got their name from a Monty Python sketch
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toad_the_Wet_Sprocket
TIL that a new venomous snake species has been discovered In Australia.
https://reptilesmagazine.com/new-venomous-snake-species-discovered-in-australia-3/
TIL a Polish charity placed a tracker on the back of a white stork to track the birds migratory habits. It travelled to Sudan before the charity lost contact. Somebody found the tracker, removed the sim card and put it in their own phone, where they then racked up $2700 worth of phone calls.
https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-44645217
TIL Mike Judge created Boomhauer's voice based on a disgruntled viewer's voice mail that he couldn't understand. The voice mail was left during the Beavis and Butthead days. Here is a link to that voice mail.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiwgG6T9se0
TIL, Heinz registered their own Pantone to fight 'Ketchup Fraud'
https://wersm.com/heinz-turns-to-pantone-to-fight-ketchup-fraud/
TIL Elephant shrews are more closely related to elephants than shrews.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bO2DpSJtFBo
TIL turn signal neglect is twice as dangerous as distracted driving
TIL Toby Froud, the baby from the movie Labyrinth (1986) is a puppet master who worked on movies such as LOTR and married a woman named Sarah
TIL William Jennings Bryan ran 3 times for the Presidency (1896, 1900, and 1908) and, each time, lost to another William, McKinley in 1896 and 1900 and Taft in 1908
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Jennings_Bryan
