TIL that Shakespeare and Napoleon were the same person. Really??
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjETukF6ZgY&t=4s
TIL before people had an understanding of electricity, electricians were entertainers that would wow crowds with tricks and levitating feathers
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/15p087f/til_before_people_had_an_understanding_of/
TIL the US is accused of using bio weapons against the Chinese and North Koreans in the Korean War. Chinese troops started getting infected with Cholera, Smallpox, Bubonic Plague and Meningitis between January and March 1952
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_biological_warfare_in_the_Korean_War
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/15oyzs7/til_the_us_is_accused_of_using_bio_weapons/
TIL Tupac Shakur and Jim Carrey were close friends. Tupac was a big fan of Jim Carrey's acting and formed a friendship. It was strong enough where Jim Carrey would frequently write to Tupac during his incarceration. The photo of them walking together seems like they enjoyed each other's company.
https://hiphophero.com/inside-jim-carreys-friendship-with-tupac-mon/
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/15oypqn/til_tupac_shakur_and_jim_carrey_were_close/
TIL that the singer from Cannibal Corpse is an expert at playing arcade claw machines, and donates the toys he wins to charity
https://loudwire.com/cannibal-corpse-corpsegrinder-donates-claw-machine-toys/
TIL that an annual supply of bottled water for a person who consumes 8 glasses a day would cost approximately $200; the same amount of tap water would cost approximately $0.33.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bottled_water#Pricing%5C
TIL that Billy West, who does the voice of Philip J. Fry's on Futurama among other characters, intentionally made Fry's voice close to his natural voice as a job security measure because it would be more difficult to replace him.
TIL that eight years after JFK’s assassination, Jackie Kennedy avoided the public unveiling of their White House portraits, but the Nixons graciously agreed to a secret, private tour for her and her kids. It was her only return visit.
https://www.whitehousehistory.org/a-secret-visit
TIL Oenothera drummondii (beach evening primrose) flowers respond to the specific frequency of flying bee sounds by producing sweeter nectar within 3 minutes
TIL about mail jumping, which is a way of delivering mail by jumping off a moving boat to a dock, putting mail into a mailbox, retrieving the outgoing mail, and then jumping back onto the moving boat. The USPS uses this method to deliver mail to houses on Geneva Lake from June 15 until September 15.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mail_jumping
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/15ov8mm/til_about_mail_jumping_which_is_a_way_of/
TIL there are thousands of miles of cables at the bottom of the ocean that link between continents to provide telephone, internet and private data traffic
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submarine_communications_cable
TIL that Mel Brooks was the (uncredited) producer of David Lynch's film _The Elephant Man. He witheld his name from the credits because he did not want audiences to expect a comedy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elephant_Man_%28film%29?wprov=sfla1
TIL Flowers, pinecones, shells, fruits, hurricanes and even spiral galaxies, all exhibit the Fibonacci sequence. Every number in the sequence is generated by adding together the two previous numbers. 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21…etc
https://www.sciencefocus.com/science/what-is-the-fibonacci-sequence
TIL Kim Jung-un was raised in secret in Switzerland
TIL in 1981, Neil Armstrong denied MTV’s request to use his likeness and “One small step” quote as part of its Moonman station identification opening sequence. The part was modified with background music and a series of beeps.
https://airandspace.si.edu/stories/editorial/meet-moonman
TIL - Auto engineers have calibrated gas gauges to be inaccurate, essentially to manage customer expectations.
https://www.npr.org/2011/04/02/135064825/the-gas-gauge-says-full-but-thats-not-quite-true
TIL Comedian Jerry Seinfeld’s cousin Evan Seinfeld is a member of the hardcore band Biohazard and is a pornographic actor who was married to Tera Patrick.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_Seinfeld
TIL that the oldest dynastic house in Europe is the House of Wettin. King Charles III is a Wettin, by fact of being a distant descendant of Theodoric I or Dietrich I, who lived between 920-975 C.E.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Wettin?wprov=sfti1
TIL David Guetta's half-brother is a member of the European Parliament
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Guetta
