TIL from watching a movie with Swedish subtitles that “the end” in Swedish is “slut”
TIL First grown in Africa about 5,000 years ago, yellow watermelons went through generations of selective cross-breeding for texture, color and sweetness before any pink variety ever appeared. As the lycopene content of hybrid varieties increased over time, the fruit naturally became redder and redd
https://farmflavor.com/lifestyle/what-is-yellow-watermelon/#:~:text=First%20grown%20in%20Afri…
TIL maternal prepregnancy obesity was associated with an increased risk of Severe Maternal Morbidity and Mortality through 1 year post partum; it appeared to be mediated by hypertensive disorders
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2793637
TIL that Blame It On The Boogie was written by M. Jackson - that's Mick Jackson, song writer from the UK - so The Jacksons' version is actually a cover
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcDj46elLhQ&ab_channel=RAZRName
TIL that since 2013 The Price is Right has been directed by Adam Sandler. But, not that Adam Sandler.
https://www.distractify.com/p/who-directs-the-price-the-right
TIL that Puff the Magic Dragon really was written as a children’s poem and isn’t a euphemism for smoking weed.
https://americansongwriter.com/meaning-puff-the-magic-dragon-peter-paul-and-mary-song-lyrics/
TIL The GEICO Cavemen had their own short-lived TV series in 2007, which was described as one of the "worst TV shows ever" in the Chicago Tribune
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavemen_(TV_series)
TIL that the first cure for tuberculosis, streptomycin, was developed by a 23 year old grad student at Rutgers, Albert Schatz. It was also effective against other penicillin resistant infections and the first life saved with the drug was a young lieutenant wounded in Italy named Bob Dole.
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CREC-2012-12-31/html/CREC-2012-12-31-pt1-PgE2023-4.htm
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/15pmwa4/til_that_the_first_cure_for_tuberculosis/
TIL, vegan horseback riding, aka hobby horsing, is a sport.
https://www.horseandhound.co.uk/features/hobbyhorse-championships-791315
TIL about the dispute between The Verve and The Rolling Stones
TIL that “heat lightning” is a misnomer. It is simply lightning from distant thunderstorms. Lightning can be seen up to 100 miles away in the right conditions, while the sound of thunder doesn’t travel nearly as far.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_lightning
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/15plwa3/til_that_heat_lightning_is_a_misnomer_it_is/
TIL the Minuteman ICBM had a smaller more portable brother, the Midgetman missile
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MGM-134_Midgetman
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/15pl2dv/til_the_minuteman_icbm_had_a_smaller_more/
TIL Mickey Jones aka Pete from “Home Improvement” was Bob Dylan’s drummer shortly after Dylan went electric in 1966
https://www.chron.com/culture/main/article/the-strange-career-of-mickey-jones-1606998.php
TIL: You can't take pictures in the Sistine Chapel because a Japanese broadcaster said so and the Vatican ran with it
TIL Our brains combine the signal from our nose and tongue to create flavor
TIL that in 1956 a B-47 stratojet carrying two capsules of nuclear weapons material disappeared over the Mediterranean Sea and was never found.
TIL that Jake Paul and Logan Paul are actually two different people.
TIL before WW1 ended on November 11th 1918, Romania re-entered the war on November 10th.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romania_in_World_War_I
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/15ph1d6/til_before_ww1_ended_on_november_11th_1918/
TIL renowned horror director George Romero got his start working on Mister Roger's Neighborhood.
TIL that in 1938 the Nazis would only create a German version of The Hobbit if Tolkien proved his Aryan heritage. Tolkien wrote back that he disavows any sort of "race doctrine".
https://lithub.com/on-the-time-j-r-r-tolkien-refused-to-work-with-nazi-leaning-publishers/
