86 Surprising Facts That Make You Realize How Much There Still Is To Learn (New Pics)

TIL that Anne Frank had an older sister, Margot Frank. According to Anne’s own diary, Margot kept a diary of her own, which has never been found and is now considered lost literature.

TIL the 2011 film "The Worst Movie Ever!" sold just one ticket over its opening weekend, grossing $11, the lowest opening film in history. The director stated the low gross was not intended as a publicity stunt, and attempts to locate the individual who paid to see the film have so far failed.

TIL We have never observed a red dwarf star fading, because the universe hasn't existed long enough for that to happen.

TIL that after Christopher Eccleston left his role as the Doctor in Doctor Who, the BBC made a false statement about his reasons for leaving, and subsequently blacklisted him. Eccleston has since said he would not return to the show unless the producers responsible were sacked.

TIL it was severely taboo for US presidents to leave the country while in office, with Theodore Roosevelt's visit to Panama to inspect progress on the canal in 1906 being the first time a sitting president has left the country.

TIL the Romans had a ritual called "evocatio": during a siege, they formally invited the enemy city's guardian deity to abandon it for the Roman side, promising a more lavish temple. It doubled as psychological warfare and mitigated the otherwise sacrilegious looting of religious images.

TIL the Eiffel Tower is 700 tons heavier today than when it was built, purely because of 130 years of layered paint.

TIL that Rome had a trade deficit with India nearly 2,000 years ago. Roman historians complained about a "drain of Roman gold" because Romans were obsessed with Indian spices and luxury goods, making it one of history's earliest recorded trade-deficit complaints.

TIL after watching The Magnificent Seven (1960), Akira Kurosawa was so impressed by the American remake of his film Seven Samurai that he sent director John Sturges a ceremonial Japanese sword as a gift.

TIL that Lionel Messi was diagnosed with Growth Hormone Deficiency (GHD) at age 11 and required daily Human Growth Hormone (HGH) injections until he was 14 just to reach an average height.

TIL Halle Berry was given a fake script for X-Men: The Last Stand that included a fake plotline which centered on Berry's character Storm in order to trick Berry into signing on for the film. Matthew Vaughan was originally going to direct it, but quit after learning about the fake Halle Berry script.

TIL ancient Greeks treated every stranger as a potential god in disguise. Their hospitality code, "xenia," required hosts to bathe and feed guests before even asking their name—because a bad host risked the wrath of Zeus. The Trojan War was framed as punishment for violating it.

TIL Neapolitan ice cream was originally pistachio, vanilla, and cherry (green, white, and red), matching the Italian flag.

TIL about the phrase "The war feeds itself", which is primarily associated with the Thirty Years' War, where the aristocracy, instead of paying soldiers, allowed them to use force to collect what they needed from occupied territories ordinary people, which led to mass starvation of peasants.

TIL Pope Leo XIV still plays Wordle and Words With Friends with his brother during their daily phone calls, a routine they kept from before his election.

TIL the girl who first suggested the name Pluto when it was discovered in 1930 at age 11, lived to see Pluto demoted to a "dwarf planet" in 2006.

TIL Tron (1982) was considered ineligible for the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects because “the Academy thought we cheated by using computers.”

TIL Thomas Jefferson wrote "our fellow subjects" in his rough draft of the Declaration of Independence, then erased "subjects" while the ink was still wet and wrote "citizens" over it. The edit was suspected for decades but only confirmed in 2010 by hyperspectral imaging at the Library of Congress.

TIL Japanese law does not recognize married couples who have different surnames as lawful husband and wife.

TIL I learned that Cellophane isn't actually plastic, but is made of plant cellulose and is bio-degredable.