LQJG9 TIL since 2023 an estimated 150,000 people have died in the Sudanese Civil War, mostly due to hunger and disease.
b6Nba TIL there were plans for a CD-ROM game based on Stephen Sondheim's musical, Into the Woods, that would teach players musical principles but was indefinitely put on hold, pending permission from Columbia Pictures, who at the time, owned the rights to the play before Disney acquired them.
QNA56 TIL That Lucie Rommel, widow of Erwin 'The Desert Fox' Rommel, was one of the consultants on the movie 'The Longest Day' in particular the scenes dealing with her late husband.
ANEBn TIL that when actor Pedro Armendariz was too ill from cancer to finish filming From Russia with Love, his scenes were performed by director Terence Young as his stand in.
yV49p TIL that the Bayeux Tapestry is not a tapestry at all, but an embroidery. Tapestries are woven on a loom, while embroideries are cloths decorated with stitched thread or yarn.
m1obo TIL that in the 14th century Hungarian monks reacted to papal interdict by excommunicating the pope.
DQZkr TIL that the lifetime of an incandescent light bulb is inversely proportional to the voltage raised to as high as the 16th power. This means that increasing the voltage by a factor of 2 can decrease the lifetime by as much as ~65536 times
vPAxx TIL the Earth "wanders" across the lunar sky due to the Moon's libration, covering a rectangle about 16° wide — that's 32 full moon diameters.
J1GoV TIL that a line house is a building located so that an international border passes through it
pYpjQ Today I learned Hawai'is royal necklace "lei Niho Palaoa" were made using a whale tooth and braided human hair. These lei were responsible for representing Hawaiian Royalty and politics. Lei were made from hair braids that were sometimes 1700 ft in length
GAda4 TIL Boston still has functional fire alarm boxes. One was used to report a fire in 2018 when a phone service outage prevented calling 911
1694X TIL that Harvey Hubbell who designed the US electrical mains plug/socket in 1904, also made a completely different design which was later adopted by Australia, Argentina, New Zealand and China.