TIL of Eddie Futch who trained four of the five fighters (Joe Frazier, Ken Norton, Larry Holmes and Trevor Berbick), who defeated Muhammad Ali.
TIL Oliver Anthony is a AI Generated Man & AI Generated Song
https://youtu.be/sqSA-SY5Hro?t=2
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/15ywkzr/til_oliver_anthony_is_a_ai_generated_man_ai/
TIL that there is a monolith in Phobos
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phobos_monolith
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/15yw2pg/til_that_there_is_a_monolith_in_phobos/
TIL that Brooklyn New York has a bigger Jewish population than Jerusalem. 1 out of every 4 people in Brooklyn is Jewish and it has been called "the most Jewish spot on Earth".
https://www.hadassahmagazine.org/2018/01/11/brooklyn-jewish-spot-earth/
TIL there is a lake called "Titi-caca"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Titicaca
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/15ys057/til_there_is_a_lake_called_titicaca/
TIL the vocals for the Bonnie Raitt classic "I Can't Make You Love Me" were recorded in only one take. The song was so sad that when asked to record another take she responded "You know, this ain't going to happen."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Can%27t_Make_You_Love_Me#Composition_and_inspiration
TIL that around the turn of the 20th century, so many people got tetanus from infected wounds from 4th of July fireworks, it got a nickname of "Patriotic Tetanus".
https://americanhistory.si.edu/blog/patriots-got-tetanus
TIL that Pan Am were booking flights to the moon, between 1969 & 1971, they processed around 93,000 reservation tickets for free. They stopped taking reservations because of the admit costs but maintained well into the 1980's that the tickets would be honoured, if and when flights were possible.
https://www.neh.gov/article/long-spacex-pan-am-was-booking-flights-moon
TIL “Bésame Mucho” (“Kiss Me a Lot”) was written in 1941 by Consuelo Velasquez, who was about 15 years old at the time, in bolero style. Inspired by the Nightingale Aria from the opera “Goyescas” by Enrique Granados, she said that she had never been kissed when she wrote the song.
https://www.kuvo.org/stories-of-standards-besame-mucho/
TIL of the brown paper bag test, which was used within African-American society. If an individual’s skin colour was darker than the bag, they were not to be admitted into social groups.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_paper_bag_test
TIL - The British Proposed a Chicken-Heated Nuclear Bomb
TIL the US Women's National Soccer Team routinely loses to High School Male soccer players
TIL there were 691 people that made over $108,000 in 2021 in Bermuda, and zero were under the age of 25
TIL that Pac-Man is the 17th highest grossing character of all time at $15.4 billion, just behind Dora the Explorer ($15.8 billion)
https://www.uprinting.com/highest-grossing-characters-of-all-time.html
TIL Sloths can hold their breath up to 40-minutes underwater; Dolphins can hold it for only 20 minutes.
https://www.forestwildlife.org/how-long-can-a-sloth-hold-its-breath/
TIL of the Cavalese incident of 1998 that occurred on February 3, 1998, in Cavalese, Italy. A US Marine Corps aircraft was flying at a low altitude when it severed the cable of a ski lift. The cable car plummeted to the ground, resulting in the deaths of all 20 people on board.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998_Cavalese_cable_car_crash
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/15xhs8m/til_of_the_cavalese_incident_of_1998_that/
TIL the voices behind Mickey and Minnie Mouse got married in real life and were also named as Disney Legends in 2008.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Allwine
TIL During the Cold War the USA & UK Government Did Human Plutonium testing on Cancer Patients , Pregnant woman and dead babies without the knowledge of anyone
TIL that gym mirrors are built differently than regular mirrors (ie home mirrors) to inspire confidence and improve own sense of body image
https://trustyspotter.com/blog/gym-mirrors/
