TIL that one requirement for Swiss citizenship is to be familiar with different types of Swiss cheeses and their places of origin. In 2018, a British man who ran a café in Zurich, was denied citizenship because he didn't know which specific canton raclette came from. [source, comments]

TIL Introduction of incubator for babies weighting less than 2kg reduced child mortality by 28 % [source, comments]

TIL in 2011 "Weird Al" Yankovic estimated that only about 2-3% of musicians have turned him down when he inquired about doing a parody of their song and that most musicians see his parodies as a badge of honor. [source, comments]

TIL on the Russian version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, audiences intentionally provide the wrong answer so often that contestants rarely use the 'ask the audience' lifeline." [source, comments]

TIL that there is a newly discovered (2023) species of shrimp which lives on trees on the Cyclops Mountains of Papua. It can jump between trees using its hindlegs to run away from predators. [source, comments]

TIL that the Hindenburg was NOT the deadliest airship disaster, the deadliest airship disaster was the USS Akron in 1933 with the loss of 73 lives out of a crew of 76. [source, comments]

TIL Bugs bunny was a parody of actor Clark Gabel in the movie It Happened One Night. His character loved snacking on carrots, which is the only reason bugs bunny did. People back then got the reference but over time the context was lost and people assumed rabbits love carrots. [source, comments]

TIL about 16th-century Dutch linguist Johannes Goropius Becanus. He argued that Dutch was the original language of creation spoken in paradise, that Adam & Eve were Dutch, that the Garden of Eden was located in the Netherlands, and that ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs derived from Dutch [source, comments]

TIL Jimmy Carter's first election was nearly stolen from him by ballot-stuffing. He took it to court and won [source, comments]

TIL Alan Turing feared losing his savings if Germany invaded Britain, so he used the money to buy two 90 kg silver bars, buried them in the woods, and wrote down the location in code. Later on when he wanted to dig up the silver bars he was unable to break his own coded message and never found them. [source, comments]

TIL Adolf Hitler's father was named Alois Schicklgruber to match his mother's surname. He changed his surname to Hitler to match his stepfather. [source, comments]

TIL that while filming off the coast of Australia. The Discovery channels TV crew for the show River Monsters discovered a castaway fisherman on a deserted island. While before the discovery, the crew had joked about castaways on the island. [source, comments]

TIL In 2017 Iceland's President said that if he could he would ban pineapple on pizzas. He later clarified that he didn't have the power to ban pineapple from pizzas and said he was glad he didn't hold such power. [source, comments]

TIL Cary Elwes Thought Mel Brooks' Pitch For Robin Hood: Men In Tights Was A Jim Carrey Prank - SlashFilm [source, comments]

TIL Tucker Carlson’s college yearbook listed him as a member of the “Dan White Society,” referencing the man who assassinated Harvey Milk and George Moscone. [source, comments]

TIL: Pope Celestine III claimed that air used in windmills belonged to the Church. He only allowed windmills to be built after paying a papal tithe, effectively taxing wind power in 1190 [source, comments]

TIL that When the French fleet bombed Algeria in 1683, Mezzomorto Husseyn put the body of the French Consul Jean le Vacher in a cannon and turned him towards the French fleet and fired killing him. The cannon became known as "la consulaire" which is Still on display in France. [source, comments]

TIL the soap opera Days of our Lives has aired over 15,000 episodes. [source, comments]

TIL that although rare, a specific type of protein in your brain can fold the wrong way, causing a chain reaction that leads to a Prion Disease. An incurable , always fatal Neurodegenerative Disease. [source, comments]

TIL that the Ford "deathtrap" Pinto was in fact safer than other cars in its class and on average just as safe as other cars on the road. [source, comments]