TIL "Jelly Babies" were first named "Unclaimed Babies" https://ift.tt/7VwKJvn

TIL after Treasure Salvors, Inc. found the Nuestra Señora de Atocha shipwreck, Florida forced the finders into a contract giving 25% of the found treasure to the state. After 8 years of litigation, the U.S. Supreme Court awarded all found treasure to the finders. https://ift.tt/MPKZ3jd

TIL Florence Nightingale was a pioneer of statistics and infographics. Nightingale used statistics to measure the quality of soldiers' treatment and sanitation. She wrote reports with diagrams so to be understood by politicians and the illiterate; popularizing the pie graph in the process. https://ift.tt/sKPw3Ej

TIL Sonora Carver, one of the first female horse divers, went blind from retinal detachment while diving with her horse, Red Lips, at an Atlantic City show in 1931. Despite her permanent injury, she continued horse diving for another 11 years. https://ift.tt/XKiYDcZ

TIL there is a movement to recover and preserve “heritage apples,” those forgotten once commercial growers settled on a few varieties to mass grow. Over a thousand have been found so far. https://ift.tt/Jcseu9I

TIL that in 1940, after the fall of France during WW2, the British Royal Navy attacked and destroyed, neutralized or captured the largest ships in the French naval fleet in order to ensure they would not fall into German hands. https://ift.tt/BdbA2hl

TIL the Cagots were an outcast minority found in the west of France and northern Spain. Persecuted for centuries, they were not distinguished by any religious, ethnic or physical attributes and were just hated for who they are. https://ift.tt/z0XiLSB

TIL that the Giant Puffball Mushroom has the the most progeny of any living thing. 7 trillion spores. If each of the spores from two generations produced a mushroom they would have a combined size 800 times the size of earth! https://ift.tt/NpFJ2Tn

TIL that during the looting of the Chinese imperial palace at the end of the 2nd Opium War, the British soldiers took a Pekingese dog to gift to Queen Victoria. She named it "Looty" https://ift.tt/vRemQlF

TIL that after a series of leaks at Tesla in 2008, Musk tried to setup a Canary Trap with slightly different versions of an email under top secrecy. But the company's clueless general counsel sent his own version of the e-mail. Thus, scheme was realized by employees who then had a safe copy to leak. https://ift.tt/VtZ5bOY

TIL that Friedrich Engels had a famously strong libido. He had numerous affairs and, despite his condemnation of prostitution as "exploitation of the proletariat by the bourgeoisie", also paid for sex. In 1846, he wrote to Marx that "if there were no Frenchwomen, life wouldn't be worth living". https://ift.tt/J5ezgy8

TIL that during Oliver Cromwell’s military campaign in Ireland, his forces allegedly beat an Irish commander to death with his own wooden leg, because they thought he had concealed gold in it. https://ift.tt/yBWpTbE

TIL that WS Simkins, the man who is credited with firing the first shot in the US Civil War, also had a severe foot fetish and went on to fund a five-year expedition to find the perfect foot, which ended in failure. https://ift.tt/NFbHcyB

TIL General Hancock chose to sacrifice an entire regiment to save the Union Army during the Civil War. The 1st Minnesota Infantry Regiment, 250 men, was ordered to charge a brigade of roughly 1200 men. They suffered a staggering 82% casualties; the largest loss by any surviving U.S unit in a day. https://ift.tt/j3YNRUB

TIL: The video game Assassin's Creed Origins is so historically accurate its used by Egyptologists as teaching material https://ift.tt/GRBYjVv

TIL the car coordinator of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood managed to locate the exact 1959 Ford driven by the Manson Family, but a replica was used instead because the idea of having the real Manson car was considered too creepy. https://ift.tt/Fld4f9U

TIL artist Salvador Dali illustrated a 1969 edition of Alice in Wonderland, with only 2,700 copies printed. It included twelve illustrations and a front-cover etching signed by Dali himself. Signatures of Dali can be spotted throughout, such as the melting clock found at the Mad Tea Party. https://ift.tt/4p3ltbo

TIL Mel Gibson originally intended for The Passion of the Christ to have no subtitles, despite the film being entirely in Latin, Hebrew and Aramaic. https://ift.tt/f19k8QH

TIL 37-year-old Anthony Hensley was in his kayak when he went to go check on a swan that became aggressive towards him causing him to fall out of kayak. As Anthony tried swimming back to shore the swan kept attacking him causing him to drown. https://ift.tt/5jLlCVN

TIL, 14 year old math Olympiad perfect scorer has been missing for 21 years, leaving a single note behind. https://ift.tt/rI5TQ7o

TIL that before the invention of regfrigeration in 1851, ice had to be imported to Australia from Boston, Massachusetts. The ice blocks travelled through the tropics inside ships insulated with timber, straw, peat, and sawdust https://ift.tt/pamWHRT