🎓 TIL - Today I Learned but no 🐝

TIL about the "Latin Verse Machine", an invention built in 1845 by an English grocer, John Clark, which generated mechanically produced poetry without any human involvement. [source, comments]

TIL that John Wayne Bobbitt, after his highly publicized divorce from wife Lorena, once worked as a wedding chapel minister for the Universal Life Church in Las Vegas. [source, comments]

TIL that in 1872, two conmen planted $20,000 worth of gemstones in Wyoming and fooled wealthy investors into believing they’d discovered a massive diamond field. [source, comments]

TIL the fan who won Shakira's purple Lamborghini in a contest later revealed that the additional $90,000 he was given wasn't enough to afford and maintain the car long-term, adding that he didn't expect the car insurance to cost $2,000 a month, and that he had…

TIL that Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack (2001) was originally pitched as starring Varan, Anguirus and Baragon as the enemy monsters. Interference from Toho forced the director to change the monsters to Mothra and King Ghidora…

TIL: There is a river called "Another River" in Alaska. Another River is a river located within Lake Clark National Park and Preserve in the Kenai Peninsula Borough, Alaska, in the United States. "Another River" was so named in 1927 by geologists who had alrea…

TIL at 15 years old, Teyana Taylor choreographed the music video for Beyonce's 2006 song "Ring the Alarm" [source, comments]

TIL that in the ancient Ghana empire, men ruled but inheritance was matrilinear, meaning that the king's heir was not his own son but his sister's son [source, comments]