TIL that the controversial Billy Boys song is set to the tune of a union civil war song, Marching Through Georgia.
https://youtu.be/H-jtYT5COvU?si=pKZkcPqUaqV7qD1t
TIL that McDonalds abandoned the Ronald McDonald gimmick, because of the 2016 clown scare.
https://www.cbr.com/why-mcdonalds-retired-ronald-mcdonald-mascot/
TIL the traffic stop lights in Akureyri, Iceland are shaped like hearts
https://www.northiceland.is/en/place/hearts-of-akureyri
TIL Delta Airlines is named after the Mississippi Delta Region and its first hub of commercial service was Monroe, Louisiana
TIL that in the Commonwealth of Virginia the Dept of Professional and Occupational Regulation you can file a complaint against a professional wrestler, boxer, or martial artist, among other occupations.
https://www.dpor.virginia.gov/sites/default/files/FormsAndApplications/F701-COMPFRM_pdf.pdf
TIL Mr. Clean’s first name is Veritably
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Clean
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1629g91/til_mr_cleans_first_name_is_veritably/
TIL the choir that comes in towards the end of the Red Hot Chili Peppers' "Under the Bridge" was made up of guitarist John Frusciante's mother and her friends from church, none of whom were professional singers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Under_the_Bridge
TIL despite decades of cultural notoriety, the practice of printing photos of missing children on milk cartons only took place for two years (1984-1986). In that time 200 children were featured of which only 2 were found alive; of the 2 only 1 was found because of the milk carton
https://happylutheran.blog/2015/09/20/remembering-the-missing-children-milk-cartons/
TIL Our solar system has 290 moons. This number increases to 752 if you include asteroids and trans-neptunian objects
https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/moons/overview/
TIL that the collective term for peacocks and peahens is "peafowl". the more you know!!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peafowl
TIL of Kleine-Levin Syndrome, which can cause a person to sleep for very long periods
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCompd3qPcg&ab_channel=ForgottenLives
TIL In 2007, the company Odyssey Marine Exploration reported having found a shipwreck containing $500 million worth of gold and silver coins. The wreck is believed to be a Spanish Navy frigate sunk by the British off the coast of Portugal in 1804.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Swan_Project
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/16236y7/til_in_2007_the_company_odyssey_marine/
TIL Bob Barker had a cameo in the soap opera The Bold And The Beautiful in which he told a man to help control the pet population by having his pet spayed or neutered, then beat him up and kicked him down a hill after the man called Bob wacko.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRhwMjya5o0
TIL Ronn Moss (Ridge from Bold & the Beautiful) was in the group Player that sang "Baby come back"
https://youtu.be/Hn-enjcgV1o?si=kCctUMygzssFvzbN
TIL icelandic singer Björk had a stalker who tried to kill her by posting a bomb containing sulphuric acid to her address.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricardo_L%C3%B3pez_(stalker)
TIL Hawaii is considered the bird extinction capital of the world - Since humans arrived, 95 of 142 bird species found nowhere else in the world have become extinct in Hawaii
https://abcbirds.org/program/hawaii/
TIL that in the 84's Olympics, an athlete replaced herself with her twin sister to compete after an injury.
https://remezcla.com/sports/in-1984-these-twins-tried-to-pull-off-a-parent-trap-at-the-olympics/
TIL Bob Barker was an enrolled member of the Sioux Tribe and grew up on a reservation in South Dakota
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Barker
