TIL Liu Chuyu, a Song dynasty princess complained to her brother that it was unfair he was allowed to have as many concubines as he wanted while she was limited to a single husband. He agreed and gave her a harem of 30 young men. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liu_Chuyu…

TIL When George Washington died, Napoleon Bonaparte of France gave a personal eulogy and ordered a ten day mourning period for France. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_fun…

TIL It takes approximately 75000 flowers, which need to be plucked by hand, to make one pound of Saffron. This is why the spice is so expensive. britannica.com/story/why-is-s…

TIL Costco's hot dog has remained $1.50 since it was first introduced in 1984. After the company president complained they were losing money on it, CEO Jim Sinegal put his foot down. "If you raise [the price of] the effing hot dog, I will kill you,"… mentalfloss.com/article/547020…

TIL in 2004, two tech guys couldn't find a video of Janet Jackson's Super Bowl nip slip on the Internet. This inspired them to create a video-sharing platform called YouTube. rollingstone.com/culture/cultur…

TIL a 19 year old Dungeons and Dragons player was killed in a car accident, so his father built a fantasy themed public park in his honor atlasobscura.com/places/jeremy-…

TIL that Spanish porn star Nacho Vidal was born into a very wealthy family. However, most of the family's wealth was lost on Black Monday, the stock market crash of 1987. In 2005, using his porn star income, Vidal bought back the mansion his family used… en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nacho_Vid…

TIL Clyde Tombaugh, the man who discovered Pluto in 1930, has a small portion of his ashes on board the New Horizons probe, which launched in 2006 and is still in space to this day. In 2015 it travelled over Pluto itself, capturing new detailed images of… earthsky.org/space/this-dat…

TIL that Mark Ruffalo had brain cancer when his wife was pregnant with their first child, and had to fight through facial paralysis and balance problems for months. cancerhorizons.com/cancer-champio…

TIL Pen Caps have holes in them so that you won't suffocate if you swallow one mentalfloss.com/article/545682…

TIL The first public call made from an iPhone was made by Steve Jobs. He called a Starbucks and ordered 4,000 lattes; then said 'just kidding' and hung up. fastcompany.com/3006147/becaus…

TIL most American-Chinese Takeout Restaurants are family owned, yet the similar sounding names and similar menus are all intentional, creating familiarity with American customers. They are also supplied by only a handful of regional distributors. smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-in…

TIL that the deadliest actors - with the all-time most kills in movies - are: Milla Jovovich (1296), Jet Li (1076), Dolph Lundgren (919), Arnold Schwarzenegger (842), Chow Yun-Fat (810), Sylvester Stallone (786), Jason Statham (718), Kevin Costner (670),… digitalspy.com/movies/a865596…

TIL 61% of Americans dread the holidays due to increased spending. 75% of parents with children under the age of 18 fear disappointing their children during the holidays. fox5ny.com/news/61-percen…

TIL The first ever Cell Phone call was made by a Motorola researcher. He called his rival at Bell Labs who had also been working on creating a working cell phone. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_o…

[TIL] Tater tots were invented in 1953 to use up leftover slivers of cut-up potatoes en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tater_tot…

TIL of Bill Heirens, who at 17 in 1946, was accused of murder. During interrogation he was beaten and starved for 6 days, eventually confessing while drugged. Despite disputed evidence and retracting his confession, he was sentenced to life. He… en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_H…

TIL the Leeroy Jenkins video was scripted satire. "We didn’t think anyone would believe it was real" said the creator in 2017 kotaku.com/the-makers-of-…

TIL that in Japan, if a working day falls between two public holidays, that working day becomes an additional holiday by law, also known as a "Citizen's Holiday". en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_ho…

TIL High doses of ketamine can temporarily switch off the brain. This pause in brain activity may correspond to what ketamine abusers describe as the 'K-hole' - a state of oblivion likened to a near-death experience, which is followed by a feeling of… medicalxpress.com/news/2020-06-h…