x6xK0 TIL of Chevalière d'Éon. Assigned Male at Birth, d'Éon was legally recognized as a Woman at age 50 by King Louis XIV in 1777
5V6rD TIL Friday the 13th (1980) was panned by critics upon release. Gene Siskel was a vocal critic of the film, going so far as to publicly spoil the ending in an attempt to convince audiences not to see it and encourage detractors to write to actress Betsy Palmer and express their contempt for the film.
M7vDB TIL that Hazbin Hotel isn't technically Keith David's first role with "Angel Dust", as in 1979 he first debuted in a film called "Disco Godfather" which primarily revolves around the real-life drug called Angel Dust, which later is the drug that the character "Angel Dust" from HbH is named after.
j6awp TIL “Because We Can” by Fatboy Slim is famous in Japan since its used as an intro music for a comedy competition show. In the US, however, the song is better known for its appearance in Moulin Rouge!
0dnrM TIL that cockroach milk is one of the most nutritious substances on Earth — 3x richer in calories than buffalo milk — and researchers are already looking into using it in cosmetics and health products.
grk97 TIL a 14,000 year old puppy buried in Germany survived canine distemper which kills most dogs in under 3 weeks. Archaeologists concluded that its Stone Age owners nursed it through the horrible illness. Then they buried it with them when it died.
LQJDv TIL before Pope Francis, the last pope to have a unique papal name was Pope Lando (913-914)
b6NJ4 TIL that “the devil in the details” is actually a play on phrase of “god is in the details”
QNAD9 TIL the PDF file format was invented by Adobe more than 30 years ago (in 1993)
ANE7o TIL that Baku, Azerbaijan is the biggest city below sea level (-28 meters).
yV4dl TIL Aldyn-ool Sevek was a master of Mongolian throat singing whose sound was said to be impossible to reproduce; he died of throat cancer in 2011.
m1oXE TIL the “Great Oil Sniffer Hoax” fooled French state oil company Elf Aquitaine in the 1970s into spending over $150 million on planes that supposedly detected underground oil from the air, before the technology was exposed as a fraud.