TIL after the band Three Dog Night covered Randy Newman’s song “Mama Told Me Not To Come” and made it a No. 1 hit, Newman called the band’s lead singer Cory Wells and said “I just want to thank you for putting my kids through college” | Category: Learned Source More
TIL of Charles Henry Turner. He was an African American scientist who earned his PhD in 1907. He discovered that insects could distinguish pitch, that cockroaches can learn by trial and error and that honeybees can see color. | Category: Learned Source More
Til that Robin Williams killed himself due to rapidly approaching dimentia, not simply depression. | Category: Learned Source More
TIL that the Mask of Warka, the oldest discovered accurate depiction of a human face (3100 BC), disappeared from the National Museum of Iraq after the 2003 US invasion. A US military mission to recover lost artifacts found the mask, undamaged, buried in a farmer’s backyard. | Category: Learned Source More
TIL Queen Elizabeth II is the only living head of state to have served in World War II | Category: Learned Source More