25 Fascinating Facts That People Only Learned Now And Just Had To Share With Others
Article created by: Rugilė Žemaitytė
The world is fascinating! For example, just today we found out that people all over the world drink 2.6 billion servings of Coca-Cola every day, which is like 11,000 sodas every second. In fact, we learned this from a cool Reddit group called ‘Today I Learned‘.
This group has a whopping 32.7 million members who share new fascinating facts they learn every day. From quirky trivia to mind-bending revelations, you might just find some interesting insights in these posts. So, step right in and start scrolling. And don’t hesitate to upvote the facts that really caught your attention!
TIL that MIT will award a Certificate in Piracy if you take archery, pistols, sailing and fencing as your required PE classes.
TIL in 1993 a fan at a Chicago Bulls game won a shot to make a basket from half court for $1million and made it. The insurance company disqualified him because he played bball in college but the team paid him themselves and years later he met Michael Jordan who told him “we made them give it to you”
TIL that the bees of the British Royal Family were informed of the Queen’s passing and their hives were adorned with black ribbons, following old traditions of informing bees about change of ownership
TIL In 2003, two men stole & flew a Boeing 727-223 parked at the Luanda International Airport (in Angola) and neither of them was qualified to fly the plane. The plane & the men are missing to date.
TIL A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus. It rotates incredibly slowly on its axis, taking about 243 Earth days, while it completes an orbit around the Sun in around 225 Earth days.
TIL Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan had to ask fans to stop recreating a scene from the show where an angry Bryan Cranston throws a pizza on his roof, because the real life owner of the house was sick and tired of this happening.
TIL: In 1562, Spanish bishop Diego de Landa burned 27 Mayan manuscripts in front of the Maya people of Maní, Yucatan. This was an attempt to erase their memories of their Gods and beliefs so that they were more easily coerced into converting to Catholicism. Today, only four Mayan manuscripts exist.
TIL in 1642, the people of New Haven, Connecticut were horrified by the birth of a “monstrous” pig with one eye. They became convinced that George Spencer, a local man with one eye, was the biological father. He was found guilty and fatally punished.
TIL that Irving Berlin is the only Academy Award winner in history who presented the award to themselves. He won for writing ‘White Christmas’, and declared that opening the envelope was extremely awkward. The rules were then changed to prevent this ever happening again.
TIL that at least 4 billion people across the globe wear glasses, and 75% of adults worldwide rely on some sight correction product.
TIL in 1956 Paris and Rome signed an agreement to become twin cities of each other exclusively with the statement “Only Paris is worthy of Rome; only Rome is worthy of Paris”.
TIL that most airlines never use a flight number again if that flight has a fatal crash, except for American Airlines, which keeps using flight #1 despite three major crashes.
TIL that an estimated of 22% of all gold ever accounted for on the earth’s surface came from a single plateau in South Africa called Witwatersrand.
TIL about the 2010 book “Barbie: I Can Be A Computer Engineer” and that Mattell apologized for the book after extensive online criticism because Barbie had her male friends code the game she was designing and that her male friends fixed Skipper’s computer that Barbie had infected with a virus
TIL from WTC debris, the structural steel was bought by scrap metal industry and sold to Chinese and Indian second hand metal markets. Several buildings were built with Twin Tower steel across Indian cities, including a college and a trade centre.
