TIL that the song “Let’s Get It Started” was originally “Let’s Get Retarded”
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/15rbsld/til_that_the_song_lets_get_it_started_was/
TIL you could mail kids through the US Postal Service
https://www.history.com/news/mailing-children-post-office
TIL that a chain restaurant did not want to move into Taylor County, Florida due to an anti-incest billboard that had the slogan "She's your daughter. Not your date." Some members of the Taylor County economic board wanted it taken down but agreement was made to let it remain until the lease ended.
https://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/2016/07/10/anti-incest-billboard-irks-taylor-county-e…
TIL Paul Reubens' final public performance as Pee Wee Herman was for a one time stint as a radio DJ on KCRW on November 26, 2021 and the show was called "the Pee-wee Herman Radio Hour."
https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/paul-reubens-pee-wee-herman-radio-dj-1235383212/amp/
TIL that the youngest soldier in the first world war (WWI) was an 8 year old from Serbia, Momčilo Gavrić (1 May, 1906 - 28 April 1993)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mom%C4%8Dilo_Gavri%C4%87?wprov=sfla1
TIL the World Record for longest name is held by a man whose name contained 746 letters and 27 words. Each of his 26 surnames started with a different letter, in alphabetical order. His last name told the story of a Wolf-Slayer whose ancestors came here on a tungsten spaceship 1.2 million years ago.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubert_Blaine_Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorff_Sr
TIL age group 45 to 54 years old accounts for 80% of all U.S. suicides.
https://www.samhsa.gov/suicide
TIL that scientists say you have six doppelgängers
https://www.987thebull.com/scientists-say-you-have-six-doppelgangers/
Today I learned that all but one country in the UN has ratified or accepted the rights articulated for children in the UNCRC treaty. The one country who hasn't is the United States.
https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convention_on_the_Rights_of_the_Child
TIL about Bob Fitzsimmons, boxing's first three-division world champion. He is the first middleweight champion to win the heavyweight title and has the Guinness world record for being the 'lightest' heavyweight champion, weighing in at 165lbs when he won the title.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Fitzsimmons
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/15r79wk/til_about_bob_fitzsimmons_boxings_first/
TIL in "Friday the 13th" (1980), the Camp Crystal Lake scenes were shot at a real camp in New Jersey, Camp No-Be-Bo-Sco. It’s still in operation today as a Boy Scout camp.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friday_the_13th_(1980_film)
TIL that California is named after a fictitious island described in a series of 16th century Spanish romance novels. The island was described as being inhabited by beautiful black women who wore gold armor.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California
TIL there is an actual project aiming to develop a sub gram nano spacecraft with cameras and all and send it to the Alpha Centauri star system with a travel speed of 1/5th of the speed of light
https://breakthroughinitiatives.org/
TIL That there was a "professional, cuddler, kisser and hug enthusiast" called Anton Vasilov Tsvetkov, born in Bulgaria. He pioneered the field of "therapeutic touch" in Eastern Europe.
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_Vasilov_Tsvetkov
TIL between 28 October 1918 and 9 November 1918, Germany was a parliamentary monarchy. The Chancellor was no longer reliant on the Emperor's confidence, but rather on the parliament, the Reichstag. The consent of the Reichstag was also needed to declare war and conclude peace, not just the Emperor's
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_constitutional_reforms_of_October_1918
TIL that in 1972 Jimmy Page and Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin traveled to India and recorded several Zeppelin songs with Hindustani classical musicians, featuring tablas, tambura, flute, and strings.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiotNLsL-wo&pp=ygUaemVwcGVsaW4gIGJvbWJheSBvcmNoZXN0cmE%3D
TIL in 2009, popular brazilian crime show host ‘wallace souza’ was charged with hiring hitmen for murders in order to be the first on the scene to boost ratings. he was linked to 5 cases and died before trial.
TIL- UPS Drivers rarely make left turns in order to save fuel
https://hbr.org/2014/04/ever-notice-that-ups-trucks-rarely-make-left-turns
TIL that an estimated of 22% of all gold ever accounted for on the earth's surface came from a single plateau in South Africa called Witwatersrand.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witwatersrand
TIL that visitors to the Grand Canyon National Parks Museum were exposed to unsafe levels of radiation for nearly two decades due to uranium ore being improperly stored in 5-gallon paint buckets next to a taxidermy exhibit
