TIL The Cure’s hit song “just like heaven” is a cover from a 1965 Peruvian band titled “Taxi ¡Solo Como en el Cielo! Los Chicos No Lloran”
TIL Nepal's average IQ is lowest at 42.99, while Japan's is the highest at 106.48.
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/average-iq-by-country
TIL that only two Northern White Rhinoceros are left, and they are both females
TIL that the Shortest Reigning Head of State was Louis Antoine of France, who "Ruled" for 20 Minutes on 2 August 1830 as His Father Abdicated but Louis Antoine Refused To Sign the Abdication Document. This, however, is Disputed by some Historians who Claim it's "Too Short to Count".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Antoine,_Duke_of_Angoul%C3%AAme
TIL: Lo Fu-Chu was a mid level mafia member, jailed for 3 years, started a new criminal organization called "Celestial Alliance", he then dabbled in legitimate businesses and became powerful government official where he attempted to strangle a coworker. He is now on the run for insider trading.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lo_Fu-chu
TIL that only 10% of parents of deaf children will learn ASL.
https://www.bu.edu/articles/2017/asl-language-acquisition/
TIL that there is a mountain in Wyoming that was formed by a 500-square mile rockslide 50 million years ago. The slide traveled 25 miles in about 30 minutes and may moved like a giant hovercraft as the result of volcanic activity breaking limestone down into carbon dioxide gas
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_Mountain_(Wyoming)
TIL in 2004 actor Paul Walker secretly purchased a $10,000 engagement ring for a U.S. military veteran. Paul was at a jewelry store and overheard a couple talking about a ring they loved but that was too expensive. Paul quietly put the ring on his tab and walked out of the store.
TIL in WW2, the US made 1.5 million Purple Heart medals because so many casualties were expected from the invasion of Japan. As this never happened, they are still using that stockpile of medals.
TIL about a woman being seriously injured while magnet fishing from a bridge. She had the rope tied to her wrist and threw the magnet over. It got caught on a fast moving boat which caused her to be immediately pulled off the bridge and into the water. Her boyfriend jumped in to rescue her.
TIL that Big Bird was originally suggested as one of the candidates to go aboard the Challenger shuttle.
https://www.history.com/news/big-bird-challenger-disaster-nasa-sesame-street
TIL of Operation Starvation, a March 1945 aerial mining campaign against Japan that was more effective against naval shipping than all other campaigns (including submarines) combined.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Starvation
TIL that during WW2, the US also confined people with German and Italian ancestry (many who had US citizenship).
https://encyclopedia.densho.org/German_and_Italian_detainees/
TIL the Big Island of Hawaiʻi is only 400,000 years old, and the entire island chain is slowly travelling North East at around 32 miles per every million years away from the hot spot in the earth's crust that created them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawaiian_Islands#Geology
TIL the 1 billion smokers in the world contribute to the 880,000 second hand smoke deaths each year from those that do not smoke.
TIL Otávio Jordão da Silva Cantanhede, a 20-year-old Brazilian amateur football referee,was lynched, beheaded and quartered by football spectators after he stabbed a player to death in a match he officiated on 30 June 2013
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Ot%C3%A1vio_Jord%C3%A3o_da_Silva
TIL of Marcus McDilda - a P-51 Mustang pilot shot down over Japan two days after the first atomic bombing. Tortured by the Japanese to learn U.S. atomic bomb capabilities, he told his captors the U.S. had 100 atomic bombs that would be dropped on Tokyo and Kyoto within "the next few days."
TIL that sub sandwiches are called subs because they look like submarines
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submarine_sandwich
TIL Vidkun Quisling, head of Norway's Nazi puppet government, and his second wife, Maria, adopted his first wife, Alexandra, as a foster daughter. He also never legally married Maria.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vidkun_Quisling
