TIL that before time zones, towns kept “local solar time,” where noon was set when the Sun was highest overhead in each place. This caused clocks to differ by minutes, forcing trains to use timetables that accounted for multiple local times and prompting railroads to push for standardized time.

TIL that the human brain matures at 25 is a myth

TIL sheep and goats don't have upper teeth (i.e they only have teeth on their jaw)

TIL Robert Ripley visited 200 countries hunting for the weird and was obsessed most with China. Ripley believed he was a Chinese reincarnated as an American. Ripley adopted Chinese dress and customs, filled his homes with Chinese artworks, Chinese junk, and signed his cartoons “Rip Li” for a time

TIL that during the recording of the 1993 album “Siamese Dream,” the Smashing Pumpkins’ drummer Jimmy Chamberlin would go on extended heroin benders. After vanishing for three days, frontman Billy Corgan “put the hammer down” and made Chamberlin perform the song “Cherub Rock” until his hands bled.

TIL that North Korea's biggest export is fake hair amounting to 46.5% ($188M) of all exports of North Korea

TIL It is estimated that a quarter of the population of Britain was killed around 6200 BC by tsunamis triggered by underwater landslides in Storegga, Norway.