ANEZ7 TIL pelicans are huge (up to 6ft/183cm)
yV4ev TIL: The Great Khan had a silver tree that dispensed 4 types of alcohol so that he never ran out.
m1oVO TIL the son of Queen Victoria's 8th son was an important figure in the Nazi party and a member of Reichstag from 1936 to 1945
DQZxp TIL Richard of Shrewsbury was knighted before 2 years old, married at 4, widowed at 8, then likely murdered at 9.
vPAYj TIL: The US and UK threatened to nuke Iraq if they used Chemical Weapons against their Soldiers in the 1991 Gulf War
J1GBj TIL the 1965 Draft Dodger Rag by Phil Ochs, according to a historian, listed "nearly every available escape from conscription" in the Vietnam War. This included carrying a purse, having an old invalid aunt, and not being able to touch ones toes.
pYpv4 TIL that cauliflower isn't just white. It also grows in purple, green, and orange varieties.
GAd97 TIL: Swedish materials science professor Maria Strømme published a 2025 peer-reviewed paper in AIP Advances arguing consciousness is the fundamental field of reality—time, space, and matter emerge from it. Brains act as receivers/filters for this universal field, not its source.
169gW TIL that the last known individual dinosaur was a triceratops that lived as recently as several thousand years before the K–Pg extinction event. No younger dinosaur fossils have yet been found.
oRG77 TIL that Julius Yego, who famously taught himself Javelin through the internet, is still competing at the elite level 11 years after his famous World Championship win in 2015. At the 2025 World Championships he made it to the final and placed 6th.
dDBAK TIL the full government name of Bruno Mars is Peter Gene Hernandez
KYpAw TIL the furthest distance that a lost pet dog has found their way home is about 2,000 miles (3,218 km), which was walked by a dog named Jimpa (from Western Australia to Victoria) in 1979. During Jimpa's 14-month trek home, he managed to negotiate the "almost waterless" Nullarbor Plain.