Til that Robin Williams killed himself due to rapidly approaching dimentia, not simply depression. | 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 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 that Apatheism is the belief that if a god exists, or not, it does not matter, because the effect is the same. Therefore there is no point engaging in worship or even positing the question of existence of the god at all. | Category: Learned Source More
TIL in 1987, in Brazil, a ship carrying 22tons of weed in 3lb cans dumped all of it in the sea after being chased by Brazilian authorities. The cans were carried to the coastline by the tides, and most ended up being found (and used) by locals. This event came to be known as “The Summer of the Cans” | Category: Learned Source More
