LQZpm TILJohn Wesley (of the Methodist Church) and Benjamin Franklin worked together on medical electrical devices.
b6wYj TIL the Grammy Award for Best Disco Recording was given out only once, in 1980. "I Will Survive" won, beating "Boogie Wonderland", "Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough", "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?" and "Bad Girls"
QN1Qa TIL in 1963 the Ballon d'Or was awarded to a goalkeeper (hasn't happened again after that). Lev Yashin.
ANeWx TIL that it has been proposed that an ingressive velic trill, also known as the sound of snoring, should be represented in linguistics by the symbol ꙫ, chosen for its resemblance to a pig's snout
yVpvX TIL Michigan Central Train Station in Detroit, Michigan, once a symbol of the city's decline, was restored over 6 years in a $900M project into a Ford mobility campus. The effort took 1.7M labor hours & 3.1K workers to restore 8M bricks, 29K Guastavino tiles, & 23K sq ft of marble flooring.
m1BJp TIL that Chinese Chess, or Xiangqi 象棋, was inspired by the Chu-Han Contention (206–202 BCE), a civil war in Imperial China between the fall of the Qin Dynasty and the establishment of the Han Dynasty
DQl5D TIL that Sandra Hüller, the German actress who portrayed Eva Stratt in "Project Hail Mary", is a certified forklift operator. She got the certification for her role in "In the Aisles" (even though she didn't operate the forklift in the movie).
vPoE8 TIL that Polar Bear Jail is a special building where polar bears that are considered troublesome or dangerous are isolated until they can be relocated
J1k8v TIL there are more than 50 taxa (genera and species) of organisms that have been named after Sir David Attenborough.
pYkmN TIL that most Pakistanis in Britain come from one town in Pakistan, Mirpur. The town earned the nickname "Little England.
GABVG TIL scientists have been able to trace the start of HIV/AIDS to King Leopold’s Belgian Congo, originating as far back as 1909. The first person to be infected probably got the virus in the 1920s
16mBO TIL that the size of the hole in a CD (and DVD, Blu-Ray, etc) was determined by the lead developer putting a Dutch 10 cent coin on the table and stating that would be the size