VB9aD TIL of the Muhlenberg urban legend: German was prevented from becoming an official language of the USA after a 42 to 41 defeat in the House of Representatives in 1794, with the first speaker of the house Frederick Muhlenberg casting the deciding vote. But he likely did not cast a vote in reality.
X0RdR TIL the Sultan of Brunei have a personal car collection of 7,000 cars. He have the highest number of privately owned Rolls-Royce and Ferraris in the world.
OGmr1 TIL that the only officially recorded meteorite on Greek soil fell in 1818 in Serres, is 4.56 billion years old, and now resides in the Natural History Museum of Vienna.
69OJw TIL about the Moors Sundry Act of 1790 which excludes subjects of the Moroccan sultan from being slaves regardless of their skin color (Any black person at the time in SC was considered a slave by default)
woQB7 TIL about Zeno's "Achilles paradox," which proposes that a runner cannot overtake a tortoise in a footrace
R5QE1 TIL that Mary’s nose on Michelangelo’s famous sculpture The Pietà is a reconstruction, the result of a 1972 hammer attack, and the original was never recovered
W7WKB TIL Eminem’s Lose Yourself made history as the first rap track to win an Oscar for Best Original Song and he didn’t even tune in because he thought there was no way he’d win choosing instead to fall asleep watching cartoons with his daughter.
9wemB TIL there is an alternate ending of the Breaking Bad finale on the last season DVD. It involves Bryan Cranston playing the role of his Malcolm in the Middle (2000) character Hal waking up from a nightmare which happens to be the events of Breaking Bad.
nW1Od TIL that haggis is banned in the USA, since it contains lung meat
4kwGb TIL Martin Scorsese was a camera operator at Woodstock and filmed the legendary Sly and the Family Stone performance and helped edit the film.
x6xY0 TIL 1 in 9 (11%)Americans have acquired toxoplasma gondii (the cat lady parasite) at some point
5V6pD TIL about the "Benefit of Clergy," where you could get out of being tried for a crime in civilian court by showing you could read a passage from the Latin Bible