Today I Learned 🎓

TIL that Yosimite Sam's *last name* is Sam. His first name is Aloysius. [Source]

TIL that in 2005 a French pilot managed to land a specially-modified helicopter on the summit of Mt. Everest [Source]

TIL a type of crustacean called the sea sapphire is capable of becoming invisible. Its cells contain crystal plates that reflect ultraviolet instead of visible light when tilted at certain angles, allowing it to escape predators when it momentarily vanishes fr…

TIL that The Neptunes produced the Mcdonalds famous "Im loving it" Jingle while Rapper Pusha T wrote the lyrics/verses for the campaign and performed vocals on the early ads. [Source]

TIL about Chevalière d'Éon, a French spy who used her naturally androgenous characteristics to publicly present herself as either a man or woman, depending on what she need to be; in the English court, she was a man; in the Russian, a woman. [Source]

TIL that Charlie Sheen's last name is in honour of Roman Catholic archbishop Fulton J. Sheen; his father Martin Sheen chose the archbishop's last name as part of his stage name, and Charlie likewise chose it after becoming an actor. [Source]

TIL Osama bin Laden's father, older half-brother and half-sister all died in separate airplane crashes, in 1967, 1988 and 2015 respectively [Source]

TIL that cluster headaches are rated more painful than childbirth and gunshot wounds. They are nicknamed the “suicide headache.” [Source]