ANep7 TIL there is a marathon held at the North Pole where armed guards are stationed to shoot at polar bears that enter the race area
yVpyv TIL Solo Sikoa's given middle name is Yokozuna.
m1B4O TIL of Jacques Tits (pronounced [tits]), a French mathematician that introduced Tits buildings (combinatorial structures), the Tits alternative, the Tits group, and the Tits metric
DQlpp TIL of Count Dante, a Chicago socialite turned martial artist who opened his own Dojo focusing on brutality, that he advertised via comic books ads. He eventually attempted to blow up a rival dojo and was involved in a deadly dojo fight. He also took his pet lion cub on strolls around the city.
vPoVj TIL - In the lead up to the WW2 battle of Attu Alaska, soldiers drove six tractors off of a cliff because there was no other way to get them down. All of them survived.
J1kdj TIL that the retail store chain operated by the US Department of Defence to provide shopping opportunities to soldiers on military bases is a multi-billion-dollar company and one of the largest retail brands in the country, with 5,500 locations.
pYkW4 TIL:that for several millennia, some humans buried corpses in their houses
GABQ7 TIL about "The Time Ships" a 1995 sci-fi novel by Stephen Baxter. It's a canonical sequel to H.G. Wells 1895 "The Time Machine" which was authorized by H.G. Wells estate to mark the anniversary of the original, making it one of the longest wait times between the original and the sequel ever.
16mAW TIL Tactile paving(Tenji blocks), sidewalk guides for the visually impaired were first developed in Japan in 1965 for pedestrian crossings. Tenji meaning braille. They quickly spread after their adoption by Japan National Railways at station platforms and now used worldwide
oRE97 TIL that in 1950s the Polish government encourage hitchhiking with guide books that vouchers designed for the drivers to hand in for prizes.
dDOWK TIL that in 1971 all four ex-members of Beatles topped Canadian charts with their own singles: Isn't It a Pity, It Don't Come Easy, Uncle Albert, and Imagine
KY5Qw TIL of Julien Offray de La Mettrie, an 18th-century French hedonist who argued that sensual pleasure should be maximized. This belief was said to have killed him: at a party, eager to show off his gluttony, he devoured large amounts of truffle pâté, then fell into a severe fever and eventually died