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TIL Simpsons characters Moe Szyslak and Mr. Burns were originally played by Christopher Collins/Chris Latta, notorious for voicing Starscream in Transformers and Cobra Commander in G.I.
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TIL that stacking rocks(Rock Cairns)for photos can actually harm ecosystems and disturb wildlife
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TIL about Xenoturbella, an organism without brain, eyes and organs with just one hole (for food to get in and out again).
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TIL that every baseball used in professional games is still hand-stitched with each ball requiring 108 stitches because no machine has been able to replicate the process
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TIL that, at it's original publication, The Hobbit did not take place in Middle Earth, or the greater Legendarium Tolkien had created.
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TIL that British carried out of completed genocide of Aboriginal Tasmanians with complete loss of language and disappearance of people solely of Tasmanian descent.
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TIL bats carry many different kinds of viruses, but usually do not get sick themselves, sometimes leading to zoonotic infections in humans
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TIL Sherpa are an ethnic group — I had always assumed it was just a word referring to the job of helping people up mountains
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TIL that in 2024, NASA engineers saved Voyager 1 by reviving backup thrusters that hadn't been used since 2004.
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TIL that the Hubble Space Telescope launched with a major optical flaw and was widely seen as a failure, until astronauts repaired it in orbit turning it into one of humanity’s most successful scientific tools.
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