40 “Today I Learned” Facts To Keep Your Brain Active (New Pics)

US has not elected a below average height president for 120 years. Only 3 presidents since 1776 were not above average height.

In 2015, Planet Earth II attempted to capture the birthing grounds of Saiga Antelope, where hundreds of thousands gather. Instead, the crew witnessed a disease spread, k***ing 150,000 in three days.

2,000-year-old sapphire ring believed to have been owned by Roman Emperor Caligula sold for £500,000 in 2019. The sky blue ring also has an etching on it that's thought to depict Caligula's fourth and last wife, Caesonia.

Carrie Fisher's ashes were buried in urn shaped like a Prozac pill.

The F-104 Starfighter jet had such an abysmal safety record it was called the Widowmaker in West Germany. 292 of 916 units were lost to accidents there. Other countries reported similar rates.

Last train robbery in the US was in 1970, at the San Antonio Zoo.

2022 DC superhero “Batgirl” was the most expensive ‘abandoned’ movie in history. Warner Bros. already spent over $90M finishing it, and the film was in post- production, when they decided not to release it.

Tōxcatl, an annual Aztec festival which revolved around the sacrifice of a young man who had been impersonating their god Tezcatlipoca since the last Tōxcatl festival, and the selection of a new man to take that role in the year to come.

Oldest cat to give birth (to 2 kittens) was Kitty at 30 years old. She passed away just short of 32 yo and gave birth to a total of 218 kittens.

Movie Cleopatra cost $350 million adjusted for inflation to make, 3 times higher than Ben Hur. Due to its cost it was considered a box office bomb despite being highest grossing film of 1963.

A man under the pseudonym "Kirk Allen" who became deluded that a sci-fi book series was actually the story of his life. He filled in the blanks with elaborate details and hallucinated himself in those settings. He was treated by Robert Lindner, who himself became obsessed with the books.

Masi Oka, who played Hiro Nakamura in the TV show Heroes, founded the developer that made the game Outer Wilds.

America, the country with the worlds 3rd largest population has only 9 cities with a population above 1 million according to the 2020 census and the 2022 estimate. 3 of those cities are in Texas.

HBO cancelled Game of Thrones spin-off Bloodmoon in 2019 after spending $30 million on its pilot. HBO's content chief explained that it was a hard project because George RR Martin had only written about 8 lines of text for the era the show was set in, so a lot more invention was required.

Star Jelly, a translucent jelly-like substance that has been found for centuries. Scientists have no idea what it is. According to folklore, it is deposited on the Earth during meteor showers.

Mother of Lee Harvey Oswald would sometimes go to Dealey Plaza and sell her autograph for five dollars.

Rapper Shyne, famous for going to jail as part of Diddy's posse as well as writing for many famous artists, converted to Orthodox Judaism in prison, moved to Jerusalem to study the torah up to 12 hours a day, and now has become a politician and leader of the opposition party in Belize.

Despite selling 500k copies in its first two hours and going 7x Platinum, Guns N' Roses' Use Your Illusion I & II albums were considered to have "underperformed" sales expectations.

Sleeping on your side increases facial wrinkles that are perpendicular to expression based wrinkles.

The (in)famous problem of most scientific studies being irreproducible has its own research field since around the 2010s when the Replication Crisis became more and more noticed.