Y75wG TIL according to a 2025 Gallup survey only 35% of American adults believe that pornography is morally acceptable
Bgk9L TIL that North American porcupines often fall out of trees when looking for food and stick themselves with their own quills.
rNv8e TIL the drum-playing kid in Don Henley's video for "The Boys of Summer" was the bass player in Daughtry
NXD1E TIL that Richard Rodgers (Oklahoma, South Pacific, The King & I, etc) was the first person to win the "EGOT" - an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and a Tony. Barbra Streisand, Helen Hayes and Rita Moreno were the next 3. He is one of only two people to win a Pulitzer as well.
l7d4N TIL There was an argument between NATO signals intelligence agencies over whether GSM should have strong or weak encryption
8eVoK TIL about the Bekenstein Bound, which says that there’s a limit to how much information you can squeeze into a space before it’s completely full.
P1yvn TIL that a chocolate company that controls the entire chocolate manufacturing process is called bean-to-bar
epYJk TIL Seychelles warblers skew heavily female (about 90% female) and mallards are the avian with the highest rates of males at around 64% males
VB9xQ TIL - About the RMS Tayleur a White Star line ship that sank in 1854 on its maiden voyage to Australia with a loss of life between 290 to 380 of the 680 abroad.
X0RW6 TIL Sultan of Morocco (Ismail Ibn Sharif) had at least 888 confirmed biological children (525 sons and 343 daughters). A French diplomat recorded that the Sultan already had 1,171 children by age 57.
OGmp6 TIL a woman being 5'10/178cm (the standard preferred height of a model) is statistically as rare in the US as an adult woman being 4'9/145cm
69OZ7 TIL Millions of vultures in India died in the 1990s after eating livestock treated with diclofenac, a common painkiller toxic to them—causing a ~99% population crash, wherein their total population numbered only 19,000 in 2017