🎓 TIL - Today I Learned but no 🐝

TIL Hitler wrote a second book after “Mein Kampf”. The second book, which is his opinions on foreign policy, was not published in his lifetime. [source, comments]

TIL that records are called “Albums” because they use to only be able to hold a single song. To get the whole set of songs you would get an "album" of all the records and could leaf through it like a photo album. The name stuck even after all songs could fit on one LP and now into the digital age. [source, comments]

TIL that BTS became the first group since The Beatles to earn three No. 1 albums on the Billboard 200 in less than a year. [source, comments]

TIL that Japanese municipalities extract precious metals like gold, silver, and platinum from cremation ash, generating millions of dollars in revenue from dental work and joint replacements left behind. [source, comments]

TIL Ganglion cysts used to be called "Bible bumps" because the recommended and commonly practiced cure for them was to smack the crap out of them with a large heavy book, which for most households they only have the Bible. [source, comments]

TIL that according to the Bank of England, most money in the economy is not created by printing presses, but by commercial banks when they provide loans. When a bank issues a loan, it credits the account with "new money" that didn't exist until that moment. [source, comments]

TIL that Thomas Silverstein was held in solitary confinement for 36 years after killing a corrections officer, the longest-held prisoner in solitary at his death. A Bureau of Prisons official stated "We can't execute Silverstein, so we have no choice but to make his life a living hell." [source, comments]

TIL that in 2009, Gordon Ramsay's London gastropubs were caught serving pre-cooked meals mass-produced at an off-site central kitchen, which were transported in plastic bags, reheated on-site, and sold with price markups of up to 600%. [source, comments]

TIL that the first text message ever sent simply said “Merry Christmas”. [source, comments]

TIL that Antarctic krill can trigger their backwards escape response just 55 milliseconds after detecting a visual stimulus, despite living in near-freezing water. [source, comments]

TIL that despite the Acali "Sex Raft" Experiment being known for its heartwarming tale of cooperation, every single participant was married or in a relationship, and cheated on their partner during their experiment. [source, comments]

TIL in 1202, Vukan Nemanjić, the eldest son of Serbia’s king, was passed over for his younger brother Stefan. Vukan raised a Hungarian army and overthrew Stefan and seized power. A few years later, Stefan regained the throne, and a third brother, Sava, a Catholic Archbishop negotiated a truce. [source, comments]

TIL that back in 1994 Red Bull ran a marketing campaign where they put empty cans of Red Bull in rubbish bins [source, comments]

TIL that in 1953 at the age of 77 the artist Alphaeus Philemon Cole moved into the famous Hotel Chelsea. He died there 35 years later at the age of 112 (And 136 days). He was the oldest man in the world at the time. Cole actively painted and exhibited up to the age of 103. [source, comments]

TIL that Canada's first Prime Minister thought war with the US was inevitable and proposed that British India send an army of Sikhs across the Pacific to hold San Francisco hostage as leverage during the conflict. [source, comments]

TIL India is the only country outside of africa with lion population. [source, comments]

TIL that female turkeys can clone themselves via parthenogenesis or a "virgin birth" - but this process will only ever produce male offspring. [source, comments]

TIL The first commercially available optical disc for video playback was the LaserDisc, released in 1978. It was 11.8 inches in diameter, double sided (you had to flip the disc in the middle of playback) and gained almost no market share in large part because consumers couldn't record with it. [source, comments]

TIL Breaking Bad S4E1 episode "Box Cutter" was screened at the Grauman's Chinese Theatre. Brian Cranston's daughter Taylor Dearden (Dr. Mel King from "The Pitt") was in attendance and fainted at the sight of blood, forcing officials to interrupt the screening. [source, comments]

TIL that the airport battle in Captain America: Civil War was almost entirely digital! ILM says 99% of what was shot was ultimately replaced with VFX. [source, comments]