TIL as an 18 month old infant, Muhammad Ali knocked off his mother’s tooth
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/15pftkb/til_as_an_18_month_old_infant_muhammad_ali/
TIL that this is one of the first crime scene photos ever taken, Featured is the corpse of Madame Debeinche, who was murdered in her Paris apartment on May 5, 1903 .
TIL the shape and design of the home plate in baseball is so unique and unusual, it is mathematically impossible to recreate naturally.
https://mindyourdecisions.com/blog/2017/10/12/baseballs-home-plate-is-impossible-mathematically/
TIL John Carpenter's The Thing (1982 film) was based on the shortened version of a novel that wasn't published until 2019
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Goes_There%3F
TIL 💥 GRB 221009A nicknamed BOAT • Brightest Of All Time • was the most powerful event ever recorded by humankind. It was a gamma-ray burst detected on October 9, 2022 ~ 2 billion light-years away and released 10,000 times the energy our sun will produce over its lifetime
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GRB_221009A
TIL Hitler loathed New Zealanders as a “lower form of human being”. At a speech given on 15 July 1925 he argued that New Zealanders lived in trees and ”clambered around on all fours”, having not yet learned to walk upright.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Order_%28Nazism%29#Concession_of_Oceania_to_Japan
TIL: In 1562, Spanish bishop Diego de Landa burned 27 Mayan manuscripts in front of the Maya people of ManĂ, Yucatan. This was an attempt to erase their memories of their Gods and beliefs so that they were more easily coerced into converting to Catholicism. Today, only four Mayan manuscripts exist.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diego_de_Landa
TIL in a soccer penalty kick shootout, the team kicking FIRST wins 60% of the time.
TIL: Bruce Willis had a top 5 pop music hit in 1987. "Respect Yourself" was a duet with Willis and June Pointer featuring background vocals by the Pointer Sisters,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Return_of_Bruno_(album)
TIL that there is only one species of beetle that can sting, and it is the only arthropod that stings with its antennae.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onychocerus_albitarsis
TIL Ulysses S. Grant met with Susan B. Anthony while President in 1872 to discuss the possibility of women's suffrage. Although he was unable to get them the vote, Grant did succeed in expanding women's rights including in the workforce, appointing thousands of female Postmasters across the country.
https://www.grantcottage.org/blog/2020/8/18/of-suffrage-and-suffering
TIL W. E. B. Du Bois attended the Friedrich Wilhelm University in Berlin, Germany, where he met many well-known social scientists, among them, Max Weber. He would later return to Harvard University (where he already earned his bachelor's in 1890) and earn his PhD in 1895.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._E._B._Du_Bois
TIL that most airlines never use a flight number again if that flight has a fatal crash, except for American Airlines, which keeps using flight #1 despite three major crashes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_number#Flight_number_changes
TIL about Andy Bowen a lightweight boxer who in 1893 fought in the longest boxing match against Jack Burke. The fight lasted 110 rounds which is around 7 hours and 19 minutes and it was reported that spectators fell asleep in their seats during the bout. The fight ended in a 'no contest'.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Bowen
TIL sigma males & females cant be brainwashed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADsxkaj_7Tw
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/15p3f6l/til_sigma_males_females_cant_be_brainwashed/
TIL: The amount of abs you can attain is purely determined by genetics. While 6 packs are the most common, some bodybuilders such as Schwarzenegger can only attain a 4 pack. This is due to humans being born with different amounts of fascia bands. The most you can have is a 10 pack, which is rare.
https://www.healthline.com/health/4-pack-abs
TIL Juggling is ancient with the earliest Egyptian depiction being in a 11th Dynasty (2150-1991 BCE) tomb painting. Juggling was also well established in China where in 603 BCE Xiong Yiliao made a Song army retreat through an impressive display of juggling 9 balls.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_juggling
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/15p1yfb/til_juggling_is_ancient_with_the_earliest/
TIL the unclaimed remains of over 400 Jonestown Massacre victims are buried together in an Oakland, CA, cemetery.
TIL during the Coolie Ordinances in the Dutch East Indies it was ordained that plantation owners were completely free to exact physical or capital punishment on their indentured workers. This system ended in the early 1940s, and it is estimated many tens of thousands perished.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_East_Indies#Cultivation_System_and_Coolie_Ordinances
TIL that during the Argentine economic boom, from the 1860s to 1930s, the UK played a dominant role in the Argentine economy. The community of English, Scottish, and Welsh Argentines was the largest of any country outside the British Empire, leading to the popular name of the "Sixth Dominion".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argentina%E2%80%93United_Kingdom_relations
