TIL if an NFL team forfeits, the other team automatically wins 2-0. Those two points are not added to the team's season points that are used for tiebreaker scenarios.
https://operations.nfl.com/media/3277/2018-nfl-rulebook_final-version.pdf
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/16apbyn/til_if_an_nfl_team_forfeits_the_other_team/
TIL that former NFL coach Jimmy Johnson attended high school with singer Janis Joplin in Texas. There, he and other jocks at the school relentlessly bullied Janis by groping her and spreading rumors around school that she’d slept with their friends because she "looked and acted weird."
TIL research found precise numerical first offers to be more effective in negotiations.
TIL among cannabis users, 22% of people have cannabis use disorder, 13% have cannabis addiction, and 13% have cannabis dependence. Cannabis dependence risk increases to 33% for young people who engage in cannabis regularly (daily or weekly)
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32485547/
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/16ag8pn/til_among_cannabis_users_22_of_people_have/
TIL that, in 1890, a man introduced the bird "starling" by releasing 100 of them whom he got from Europe into Central Park.
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/169zt66/til_that_in_1890_a_man_introduced_the_bird/
TIL that during the battle for the village of Raseiniai, which took place 23–27 June 1941, a lone KV tank held off the advance of the 6th Panzer Division for a single day, before being overrun and knocked out on the morning of June 25.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Raseiniai#The_lone_Soviet_tank
TIL a village in Kerala, India was renamed Saddam Beach during the Gulf War in solidarity. Many people from there worked in the Gulf.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2003/12/16/saddam-beach-and-a-us-boycott
TIL that water is harvested from dense fog with nets
TIL Unlike most religions, the Druze do not allow outsiders to convert to their faith.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Druze
TIL the movements typically associated with Parkinson's Disease are actually a side effect of the medication Levodopa prescribed to increase dopamine and not PD itself; these movements are called dyskinesia, whereas PD causes stiffness, slowness and tremor
https://www.apdaparkinson.org/what-is-parkinsons/treatment-medication/medication/dyskinesia
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/169ary0/til_the_movements_typically_associated_with/
TIL On Mayday in C18th England they'd have parades of pan banging chimney sweeps in drag and milkmaids carrying people on their heads.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_in_the_Green#Development
TIL in 1996, Jack Nicholson beat a woman giving her permanent brain damage and vision loss
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2000/may/15/news1
TIL that the Pokemon in Slowbro's tail was originally an entirely different being, "Taaban", that we never end up getting!
https://www.mitologia.pt/taaban-o-pokemon-perdido-566812
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/168l4fo/til_that_the_pokemon_in_slowbros_tail_was/
TIL about the theremin, an electronic musical instrument played without any physical contact
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theremin
TIL May 2 1922 Gen. Montgomery led a convoy to Macroom Castle, Cork where he ordered the IRA to surrender 4 captives or they would raze the town. In response, the Commander told him to leave “within 10 minutes”. Monty then looked up to see he had been quietly surrounded by Irish Volunteers. He fled.
https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2022/0505/1296130-1922-macroom-castle-monty-british-army-ira/
TIL: Alison Court who played Lunette the Clown on The Big Comfy Couch also voiced Lydia from the cartoon Beetlejuice.
https://youtu.be/lgXtEfCdGn0?si=g_Js_Ae6wPcMYsuW
TIL one big obstacle standing in the way of clean energy in California is the lack of high tension power lines that can move the electricity. Developing the new grid to accommodate solar farms may take a decade.
TIL the first Got Milk? commercial, “Aaron Burr,” was directed by Michael Bay.
TIL that according to studies, candy eaters weigh less than those who say no to sweet treats.
