• TIL of Thales (620-546BC), who is considered to be the first philosopher because the lineage cannot be traced beyond him. His magnus opus: All is water
• TIL a formation of larch trees in the shape of a swastika was discovered in Germany in 1992. The formation, only visible in the fall, went unnoticed for 60 years. After that discovery, other forest swastikas were found in Germany and beyond.
• TIL that astronomers recently discovered an unfathomably large structure just beyond the edge of the known universe that is pulling galaxies towards it at breakneck speeds. Some think it could be another universe butting up against ours.
• TIL that rats will help out a comrade in need. Through testing a two rats, one restrained and one free, researchers found that rats experience emotion beyond emotional contagion. Even going as far to conquer their immobilizing fear and helping another rat in distress.
• TIL Most American adults will never develop past stages 4-6 on Loevingers 9-stage developmental scale. Below the seventh stage, most cant even grasp the existence stages of development beyond their own. Less than 1% of the population will ever reach the 9th, or Integrated stage.
• TIL Kevin Spacey once directed and starred in a biopic - Beyond the Sea. Not only did he play crooner Bobby Darin, he chose to perform all of Darins songs himself.
• TIL Joseph Stalin ordered the development of a half man half ape, the creature would be resilient to to pain beyond a normal man and would not care about the quality of food given. When Stalins top scientist failed to do so, he had him executed.
• TIL that Ettore Bugatti refused to sell a car, a Type 41 Royale, to a man because The mans table manners are beyond belief! His name? King Zog of Albania.
• TIL Flights from LaGuardia Airport and Ronald Reagan Airport are not allowed to go beyond 1,500 miles and 1,250 miles, respectively
• TIL there is a website that predicts future events and technologies, all the way beyond 10,000 AD
• TIL the placeholder foo-bar used by programmers is borrowed from the military sland FUBAR, meaning Fucked Up Beyond all Recognition
• TIL: 1 million state-licensed and nationally credentialed early childhood educators are at-risk for functional illiteracy; their reading and writing skills are inadequate to manage daily living and employment tasks that require reading skills beyond a basic level.
• TIL the function names foo and bar which are so popular in programming tutorials are the phonetic pronunciation of FUBAR: F-ed Up Beyond All Recognition
• TIL that Roger Ebert thought that after The South Park Movie (1999), Matt Stone and Trey Parker should have dropped the show: Theyve taken South Park as far as it can go, and beyond.
• TIL that we can ALL read minds. Scientists believe that mirror neurons embody the predictions of simulation theory - which means we go beyond empathy!
• TIL Aditya Dahal(aka Google Boy) a Nepali 4 year old kid, who after losing his ability of normal speech and movement miraculously educated himself beyond his or even most people grasp.
• TIL that salt and pepper are regarded as the two most important seasonings because the notoriously picky eater Louis XIV banned the use of all eastern spices beyond salt, pepper, and parsley.
• TIL that Bed Bath & Beyond towel stacks are just blocks of foam with towels wrapped around them.
• TIL that the most cited economic paper in the debt crisis (Paul Ryan and lots of others relied on it), and arguably the foundation for austerity cuts in Europe and beyond relies on a mistake made in Microsoft Excel.
• TIL our liver processes about 90 percent of the alcohol consumed and timewise the amount of alcohol the average adult can process within an hour is 10 ml of pure alcohol (one unit). Anything beyond the limit makes you drunk.
• TIL when Facebook was a young company, a 22 year old Mark Zuckerberg turned down a $1 billion offer from Yahoo to buy them out, saying he wasnt sure what he would do with the money beyond starting another social networking site.
• TIL The 65th Episode Rule was a controversial rule that applied to all Disney television shows, stating that no show can go beyond 65 episodes
• TIL The origin of the term Beyond the pale and witnessed another one of those rare and weird 1 in 1,000,000 coincidences
• TIL that the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft discovered in 1998 that the magnetic field on Mars takes the form of magnetic umbrellas that sprout out of the ground and reach beyond the top of Mars atmosphere
• TIL, UY Scuti, one of the largest known stars, if placed at the center of our solar system, its surface would extend out beyond Jupiters orbit.
• TIL that Vesta is only the third solar system object beyond Earth where scientists have a laboratory sample
• TIL that David Foley (News Radio, Kids in the Hall) is bent over by Canadas wacky marriage laws, contemplates suicide, faces jailtime and is beyond broke. (NSFW - language)
• TIL that a feral child named Genie Wiley found locked in a house in Los Angeles is largely responsible for our understanding of how human beings develop language that goes beyond naming objects.
• TIL that in Chinese, the term “Leftover Woman??? is used to describe women who remain unmarried in their late twenties and beyond. There are also different stages and terms extended from “leftover woman??? based on age. In traditional Chinese culture, people think that unmarried women are incomplete.
• TIL: The mold, Aspergillus oryzae, which is used in soy sauce production, can produce a variety of mycotoxins when fermentation is extended beyond the usual time needed for production of these foods. As a koji mold it has been used safely in the food industry for several hundred years.
• TIL there is a global seed vault 1300km beyond the Arctic Circle that is the worlds largest secure seed storage, from all across the globe, crates of seeds are sent here for safe and secure long-term storage in cold and dry rock vaults.
• TIL Mad Max and The Road Warrior take place before the nuclear apocalypse, but after the Oil Wars, which led to worldwide economic decay. Beyond Thunderdome takes place after the nuclear nuclear winter.
• TIL Mike Mignola, of Hellboy fame, designed Mr. Freeze in Batman: The Animated Series as well as characters for Batman Beyond.
• TIL Ubisoft made so many extra copies of Beyond Good and Evil they ended up giving them away in packages of string cheese
• TIL if VY Canis Majoris- the biggest known star in the universe- were at the center of our Solar System, its edge would extend beyond Jupiters orbit.
• TIL that theres a small tribe in the remote Amazon with no concept of numbers beyond some, more many and no apparent concept of time. Also they deliberately starve themselves to be tigisái (hard).
• TIL that a 2010 publication by Nobel Laureate Angus Deaton found that emotional well-being rises with increases in income, but there is no further progress beyond an annual income of ~$75,000.
• TIL-Organic honey isn’t impossible. It’s just beyond of the ability of most beekeepers....Certainly some of the honey labelled as “organic??? may actually lack pesticide traces. But I’d not count on it
• TIL that Bill Watterson has never merchandised Calvin and Hobbes, beyond his books, which is why you have never seen C&H plushes, posters, coffee mugs, etc.
• TIL During human embryological growth, the anus is the first structure to develop. Unfortunately many humans never develop beyond this point and continue through life as assholes.
• TIL that the longest confirmed golf shot ever occurred in 1974, when a 64 year old man hit his ball 515 yards with a wooden-headed driver, his ball coming to a rest 65 yards beyond the 450 yard hole he was hitting at.
• TIL Steve Hackett, the lead guitarist of Genesis, was given his position after posting a classified ad saying Imaginative Guitarist-writer seeks involvement with receptive musicians, determined to strive beyond existing stagnant music forms Steve 730-2445 in Melody Maker.
• TIL there is a technique using diamonds to create immense pressures for the study of materials, creating pressures twice that of the internal core of the Earth and beyond.
• TIL Chimpanzees can memorize patterns of numbers at a glance, something which is beyond humans.
• TIL that 3-day weather forecasts are accurate enough for planning purposes about 80% of the time. Anything beyond a 3-day forecast is likely to change.
• TIL that beyond the pale originally meant you had gone outside a part of Ireland still under the control of the English crown in the 14th century, an area marked by pales.
• TIL that anecdotal reports of mothers lifting cars to free trapped children greatly exaggerate the capacity for adrenalin and fear to enhance strength. Neither induces strength beyond the physical capacity of the individual.
• TIL That certain species of hawk in Australia have been known to purposely spread wildfires beyond firebreaks in order to force prey out into the open
• TIL Batman Beyond contains a number of Akira easter eggs, as the animation director worked on that film too previously.
• TIL 300 of the 732 displaced children that the UK accepted from concentation camps after the war were sent to beautiful Windermere in the Lake District and some thrived and stayed beyond their initial 6 months of respite.
• TIL the Magnuson-Stephens fishery act signed in 2000 caused the rescue of 32 fisheries which were being over harvested beyond sustainable numbers.
• TIL Beyond Good & Evil, a video game, sold so poorly that free copies were packaged with string cheese (in Canada).
• TIL that not only was Theodore Roosevelt himself was a badass, he caused others to be badass. From beyond the grave.
• TIL that hemp, as a crop, is beyond awesome.
• TIL that goldfish can live beyond 20 years if you take good care of them. The oldest goldfish on record was 43 years.
• TIL in the middle ages and beyond it was commonly believed that witches, demons and the devil could take the form of a butterfly.
• TIL theres a bunch of planets just beyond Neptune that Ive never heard of. Makemake? Quaoar Weywot? Its like something out of Sci-Fi
• TIL of the RV bandit who stole over one million dollars.....one wallet at a time at racetracks in Florida. His crime spree spanned from the 80s through the 2000s and beyond.
• TIL On 23rd May 2012, the American nuclear submarine USS Miami was damaged beyond repair by a fire. A civilian employee Casey J. Fury later admitted to starting the fire in order to “get out of work early???. He was sentenced to 17 years in a federal prison ordered to pay $400 million in recompense.
• TIL that if VY Canis Majoris, the largest known star in the universe, were placed at the center of our solar system, it would extend beyond the orbit of Saturn.
• TIL the idea that Calculus should only be taught in high school and beyond is a misconception. According to research, it can be taught at a much younger age and has in fact been successfully taught to elementary school kids as young as 5 year old.
• TIL That in 1978 a monolithic rock was moved from Machu Picchu to make way for a helicopter landing site for the Royalty of Spain. This was done again in 1989, for a meeting of Latin-American leaders, damaging the stone beyond repair and so it was buried.
• TIL That in ancient Athens they held trials for inanimate objects which caused death, which if found guilty would be casted beyond the borders of Attica.
• TIL that Benito Mussolini once referred to Nazi ideology as certain doctrines which are preached beyond the Alps by the descendants of those who were illiterate when Rome had Caesar, Virgil and Augustus.
• TIL That DNA can be used to store large quantities of digital data and that theoretical analyses suggest that it scales far beyond current global information volumes.
• TIL that the Cadillac-driving welfare queen made famous by Reagans speeches was a real person -- and her crime and deception extended far beyond welfare fraud.
• TIL on this date in 1941, the Chicago Tribune dismissed the possibility of war with Japan as impossible, saying, Even our base at Hawaii is beyond the effective striking power of her fleet.
• TIL Russia’s massive lake Baikal is a a photographic attraction when frozen over. With the depth of 5387 feet, the ancient lake is also known as world’s deepest lake. For a period of five months, this beauty gets covered by meters of ice and the frozen lake looks like- ‘beauty beyond imagination’.
• TIL that Simon Peggs character in Spaced viewed each odd-numbered Star Trek film as crap, and now Pegg is currently writing and starring in Star Trek Beyond (#13 in the series).
• TIL Virginias Liberty University liberated their code of conduct in 2015. In the 2014 Liberty way, “personal contact beyond hand-holding??? would get a student four “points??? and a $10 fine. R-rated movies and hugs that lasted longer than three seconds were also unacceptable prior to the changes.
• TIL everyone is familiar with hyper-protective school boards that ban books because of controversial language, but the Menifee Union School District in California went above and beyond when it decided the best way to handle certain words was to ban the dictionary. (The ban was later reversed.)
• TIL The Aryan Brotherhood has a required reading list for prospective members. It includes Sun Tzus The Art of War, The Prince by Machiavelli, and Beyond Good and Evil and The Will to Power by Nietzsche.
• TIL that Pluto was demoted to dwarf planet status not because it was too small, but because its not unique among a mass of objects that orbit the sun beyond Neptune.
• TIL that the US Militarys testing shows that most drugs are safe and effective for many years beyond their expiration dates. Conservative expiration dates ensure product turnover and profits for drug companies.
• TIL in 1978, a Russian physicist, Anatoli Bugorski, was struck accidentally by the proton beam of a particle accelerator. 1/2 of his face swelled beyond recognition and became paralysed. Amazingly, he survived and completed his PhD. He is still alive today.
• TIL if the largest known star, VY Canis Majoris, were to sit in place of our Sun, its radius would extend beyond the orbit of Saturn.
• TIL That Bionic Lens Implants could improve vision beyond 20/20.
• TIL that anything with mass can become a black hole if compressed beyond its given Schwarzchild Radius
• TIL that the human body may be incapable of living beyond 120 years due to genetic coding which may limit the amount of times our cells can divide.
• TIL old Spanish coins pictured the Pillars of Hercules and read ne plus ultra, nothing beyond, as they marked the edge of the world. Upon discovery of the new world the Pillars remained but the motto was changed to plus ultra, further beyond.
• TIL before Hellraiser was the final working title of the film, title suggestions included Sadomasochists From Beyond The Grave and What a Woman Will Do For a Good Fuck.
• TIL: Extinguishing macho culture on oil rigs resulted in a company’s accident rate declining by 84%, while productivity, efficiency, and reliability increased beyond the industry’s previous benchmark
• TIL a Neptune-sized planet is almost certainly beyond Pluto
• TIL in 1977 The Big Ear radio telescope picked up a 72-second broadcast from interstellar space - originating beyond Sagittarius, the so-called Wow! signal is still the only confirmed sound received from deep space that could possibly be an intentional signal sent by entities unknown.
• TIL that three foremost theories as to what lies beyond the edge of the universe are: the Infinite Expanse Theory, the Dark Flow Theory, and of course, String Theory.
• TIL International research has shown that parental engagement has a positive impact on many indicators of student achievement and beyond educational achievement, parental engagement is associated with various indicators of student development.
• TIL The Childhood Lead Hypothesis is a belief that the removal of lead from gasoline is responsible for crime rate drops in the 90s and beyond
• TIL during WWII, Admiral William Halsey sailed the US Third Fleet through a category 2 typhoon, causing three destroyers to capsize, 790 lives lost and 146 airplanes damaged beyond repair. In 1945, Halsey tried yet again to sail into another typhoon, this time losing 75 planes and 6 lives.
• TIL of Dublins Pintmen. Known to drink around 30 pints in a day, and according to a book on Irish pub law - Pintmen exude a sort of spiritual aura when in union with their pint. An ethereal look can be seen in their eyes as they are transported beyond spatial and temporal bounds.
• TIL that Star Wars: Return of the Jedi was filmed under the title Blue Harvest: Horror Beyond Imagination so it avoided all the publicity and thats also where the Family Guy special got its name from.
• TIL that the logo for the NASA mission NROL-39 is an octopus surrounding the Earth with the motto Nothing is beyond our reach
• TIL Michael Jackson patented special shoes that allowed him to lean forward beyond his center of gravity, thus allowing for the move you see in Smooth Criminal
• TIL theres a group of scientists who believe quantum physics theory has proven we will live beyond death
• TIL that with only one exception, the United States Coast Guard does not award the Medal of Honor because it is their belief that nothing is above and beyond the call of duty.
• TIL the Liters of Light project uses no electricity to illuminate windowless homes in and beyond the Philippines - their solution uses a recycled plastic bottle with some water and bleach yet provides the equivalent output of a 60-watt bulb
• TIL in 1978, a Russian physicist, Anatoli Bugorski, was struck accidentally by the proton beam of a particle accelerator. 1/2 of his face swelled beyond recognition and became paralysed. Amazingly, he survived and completed his PhD. He is still alive today.
• TIL that, in level 3-3 of the original Super Mario Bros, it is actually possible to jump over the flagpole. An unending brick road lies beyond the castle.
• TIL Frank Whittle, the inventor of the turbojet engine, wrote: Good thing I was too stupid to know this on a academic report stating gas turbine aircraft engines were beyond the realm of possibility.
• TIL The US launched a spy rocket with a logo featuring an octopus and the words Nothing is beyond our reach
• TIL of Anna Coleman Ladd, an American sculptor who made life-like masks for WWI veterans whose faces were disfigured beyond repair
• TIL that an estimated 40% of humans in history did not survive beyond their first birthday. This brought the average life expectancy in many Iron Age cultures down to just 10 or 12.
• TIL that, in the early 1900s, a psychic and a new-age mystic came up with a novel way to test for the existence of the afterlife. Their experiment failed when, after committing suicide, the mystic failed to contact the psychic from beyond the grave. 
• TIL that the females of only three species — killer whales, pilot whales, and humans — are thought to carry on living after they pass beyond their reproductive age.
• TIL The iconic scream made by WW2 dive bombers is produced by two separate acoustic devices mounted to the wings, known as a Jericho Trumpet(s) and serve no purpose beyond intimidation.
• TIL that beyond the whole left brain / right brain thing and the subconscious, humans appear to literally have TWO competing brains in one -- one that can speak and one that cant.
• TIL If the largest star in the Galaxy was placed at the center of our Solar System, its surface would extend beyond the orbit of Jupiter.
• TIL of a U.S. Senate bill passed in 2011 specifically to extend the term of Robert Mueller as FBI director beyond the usual 10 years. It passed 100-0.
• TIL that Saturns moon, Titan, is the only body in our solar system beyond Earth known to have liquid on its surface.
• TIL sleep deprivation beyond 24 hours causes visual, auditory and sensory hallucinations, progressing to psychosis
• TIL that, if you were to add up all of the energy ever collected by radiotelescopes to produce images of objects beyond our solar system, it would be less than the energy of a single snowflake hitting the earth.
• TIL that when recording Heroes, David Bowie used three microphones. One 9 inches away, one 20 feet away, and one just beyond that. Each microphone was muted as the next activated, forcing him to sing at increasing volume to be heard.
• TIL The Pirahã people of Brazil live without the concepts of numbers or time. They cant count and use an analog estimation strategy which works well for trying to solve problems involving a few items but breaks down beyond that.
• TIL that John F Kennedy, C.S Lewis and Aldous Huxley died on the same day and that a book called Between Heaven and Hell: A Dialog Somewhere Beyond Death with John F. Kennedy, C. S. Lewis & Aldous Huxley, had those three In Purgatory engaged in a philosophical discussion on faith.
• TIL a company called Beyond Meat makes protein-rich and sustainable meat alternatives made entirely from plants. Bill Gates writes that he was “fooled by how real it tasted??? and called it “a taste of the future of food???.
• TIL Astronomers are working on a GPS-like navigation system for space travel called XNAV. It uses our Solar System as the center of the map and gives a highly accurate location of a spacecraft throughout the Universe. It would be used for future space missions beyond Jupiter.
• TIL Hisashi Ouchi a technician working at Japanese Nuclear Fuel Conversion was exposed to beyond fatal amounts of radiation, in a way that none of his chromosomes could be identified after the accident. Still, doctors managed to keep him alive for 83 days against his wishes.
• TIL that soldiers awarded the Medal of Honor receive a number of additional benefits, including a pension of $1,300 beyond any other retirement pay, space-available air travel on military transport for their entire lives, and admission to military academies for their children.
• TIL when Jim Carrey played Andy Kaufman in Man on the Moon he was method acting. He did such a good job that when Andy Kaufmans sister visited the set, she believed Jim Carrey was a vessel which allowed Andy to communicate from beyond the grave and talk to his sister.
• TIL: Female brains contain male DNA if they carried a male child. Fetal cells cross blood-brain barrier & reside in the mother’s brain beyond pregnancy, due to microchimerism. Women with male DNA= a lower rate of breast cancer & a higher rate of colon cancer. No male DNA= a higher risk of dementia.
• TIL an estimated 1 in 4 Alabamans are functionally illiterate, meaning theyre unable to manage daily living and employment tasks that require reading skills beyond a basic level
• TIL that recent research suggests that humans wont ever live far beyond 115 years because the maximum lifespan of humans is fixed and subject to natural constraints
• TIL a father and his autistic son were stranded in the Atlantic ocean. They repeated To infiniti and beyond to keep track of each other for 15 hours before being rescued.
• TIL some fires can become so intense that they sustain their own internal wind system. as heated air mushrooms above, strong gusts of wind are pulled into the center of it, continuously fueling the fire with oxygen. these are referred to as firestorms and are beyond human intervention.
• TIL prolonged anger changes the body and brain in permanent ways leaving a person angrier, more agressive and less healthy. Anger and depression share similar signs. Angry people have trouble letting go of things that are beyond their control. Laughing could be a good way to alleviate anger.
• TIL Most Americans never use advanced math beyond fractions on the job. About 86 percent of jobs require simple addition and subtraction, but only 5 percent of jobs required calculus
• TIL the longest confirmed sniper kill was by Craig Harrison who killed two Taliban insurgents from a distance of 1.54 miles. The bullet took 3 seconds to reach their targets, which were 914 m (3,000 ft) beyond the L115A3 sniper rifle’s recommended range.
• TIL that a Scottish botanist broke Chinas monopoly on tea in the 1840s by disguising himself as a Chinese noble from beyond the Great Wall, and requesting tours of tea plantations, where he learned the secrets of tea production
• TIL that Dysthanasia is the opposite of Euthanasia and means bad death. It often occurs in modern medicine when a terminally ill person is kept alive beyond their natural period, thus prolonging their suffering.
• TIL, Ball, the company everyone knows for making glass canning jars, has an aerospace division that built the HiRISE camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter - the largest telescopic instrument ever sent beyond Earth’s orbit.
• TIL in the province of Ontario, inserting an instrument, hand, or finger beyond the labia majora is a controlled act requiring one to be licensed as a physician
• TIL that the phrase To Infinity and Beyond from the Pixar film Toy Story was used by a father and son to communicate while treading water for 15 hours in the Atlantic Ocean.
• TIL Batman Beyond has an Epilogue in which Terry is an adult and finds out Bruce Wayne is his father
• TIL: Interest in the United States was limited to 6% in the original 13 States. Beyond that it was considered usury, which was illegal.
• TIL Scientists have recently discovered repeating radio signals coming from a mysterious source well beyond the Milky Way. While one-off fast radio bursts (FRBs) have been detected in the past, this is the first time multiple signals have been detected coming from the same place in space.
• TIL a 2007 meta-analysis study of Chiropractic concluded that its concepts are not based on solid science and that its therapeutic value has not been demonstrated beyond reasonable doubt.
• TIL that Betelgeuse (the red supergiant star located in the top left shoulder of the Orion constellation) is so large that if it were at the centre of our solar system, its surface would extend past the asteroid belt, possibly to the orbit of Jupiter and beyond.
• TIL that the theory of an infinite universe was first proposed by a Greek philosopher named Archytas of Tarentum ~400 B.C., reasoning that even if he did reach the end of the universe he would still be able extend his staff beyond the boundary.
• TIL of the Silver Snoopy Award—a highly coveted pin awarded to employees of NASA that go above and beyond “to ensure flight safety and mission success.??? The award is presented to the employee by an astronaut and no more than 1% of eligible recipients receive the award.
• TIL that the Catholic Church has an academy for sciences since 1607, called the Pontificate Academy of Science. They host meetings with scientists from all over the world to talk about the possibility of life beyond earth, the history of evolution, and much more.
• TIL that the extra years on sentencing beyond death (e.g. life without parole plus 1,000 years) is both a symbolic way for a judge to condemn someone as truly guilty and console a victim, as well as a practical way to make it more difficult for someone to get out prison
• TIL that Al Worden, command module pilot for Apollo 15, actually listened to By the Beautiful Blue Danube while floating isolated beyond the far side of the moon.
• TIL up to 12 million letters and 1 million parcels a week were delivered to soldiers during World War I. There was no automation beyond a stamping machine to date and stamp letters. All sorting was done by hand and the mail was transported in sacks.
• TIL that 160 container ships have the same carbon footprint as all the cars in the world combined, yet the emissions from container ships are not included in global carbon emissions testing as they are typically beyond national boundaries
• TIL that 10 billion years ago the cosmic microwave background temperature was warm enough to support life on planets beyond solar habitable zones.
• TIL the Vietnam Veterans Memorial was found to have over 100 spelling errors after its construction. Dozens of these errors were beyond repair and are still set in stone today.
• TIL Mark Twain reviled Cuban cigars:I dread high-priced Havanas with a fancy label; a label which augments the price of the cigar twenty-seven degrees beyond its value. I have accepted tons of those; and given them to the poor. Its not that I hate the poor but that I do not wish to waste anything.
• TIL Roger Ebert wrote the screenplay for Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
• TIL that Roger Ebert wrote three movies, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, Up! and Beyond the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens. All skin flicks,
• TIL Halo was getting a Mega blocks styled video game. There was a full build of the game and footage has been leaked online. Beyond that, the project hasnt been discussed.
• TIL Martin Luther King Jr April 4, 1967 Beyond Vietnam speech was his most controversial speech. It highlights American violence overseas and at home. King suggests anti-war and civil rights movement are linked.
• TIL more people have died in watermelon patches than any other form of agriculture related deaths (animal rearing not included). This is because in the 1850s and beyond, the Bradford seed was so highly sought after people protected their patches from bandits with poison and electrocution.
• TIL it is easy to build a particle physics detector with just a fish tank, alcohol, paper and a hot water bottle. It will show cosmic rays that come from beyond our galaxy.
• TIL that it took longer than usual to measure Bob Beamons World Record Long Jump leap in 1968 as it was beyond the limit of the measuring equipment.
• TIL that a contemporary philosophical school claiming that the nature of consciousness is beyond human understanding is called the New Mysterianism, after a ’60s rock band. One of the founders of this school recently wrote a book called Mindfucking: A Critique of Mental Manipulation.
• TIL of Arsenic Eaters - a group of Austrians who ingested doses far beyond the lethal dose of arsenic trioxide without any apparent harm. They used to eat up small doses initially and gradually built up to 300-400mg as a mithridate to help enable strenuous work at high altitudes in the Alps
• TIL Beyond Meat has learned how to make real meat by deconstructing plant matter and reassembling it into tissue. By skipping the animal, no greenhouse gasses are released and can be enhanced to be even healthier than real meat
• TIL that at 91 light years away, our star would not be visible to the naked eye. Meaning that any alien life form beyond that distance would not even know we exist because we would just be a dark spot in the sky
• TIL that a large species of parrot from New Zealand; called Kea, are smart enough to solve logical puzzles and work as a team to complete goals beyond their means.
• TIL the song Beyond the Sea (1959) made famous by Bobby Darin is actually a reworking of a French song La Mer (1945) by Charles Trenet.
• TIL our galaxy is part the Local Group, spanning roughly 10 million light years in diameter, making up 100 billionth of a percent of the observable universe. Humanity can never venture beyond this, because of the universes rapid expansion. Eventually, other groups may be entirely undetectable.
• TIL Betelgeuse is a giant star. If were at the center of the Solar System, its surface would extend past the asteroid belt, possibly to the orbit of Jupiter and beyond, wholly engulfing Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars.
• TIL The last time humans traveled beyond Low Earth Orbit was Apollo 17 in 1972.
• TIL the Hubble Limit represents the furthest observable objects in the universe as anything beyond it is accelerating away faster than the light it emits. Since the universe is expanding we could forever lose sight of the furthest objects.
• TIL that a poet enciphered a poem into the DNA sequence of an unkillable bacteria, ensuring that his words will survive billions of years, beyond the human race and the Earth itself
• TIL that every climber ascending beyond Everests base camp must bring back 8 kg of rubbish.
• TIL after the 2007 movie The Man From Earth was illegally shared via BitTorrent, the producer publicly thanked the file sharers because it lifted the profile of the film far beyond the financiers expectations.
• TIL that the construction of Brandenburg, the new airport in Berlin, is so behind schedule they will have to scrap 750 display screens which are now at the end of their life having being switched on for six years. Not a single flight has yet left the airport, and it may not open until beyond 2020.
• TIL: 80% of N.W.A.s Straight outta Compton sales were in the suburbs, beyond the boundaries of black neighborhoods.
• TIL there is a Sufi trance band that has existing for over 1200 years. Theyve inspired everyone from The Rolling Stones to William S. Burroughs and beyond…
• TIL that before the mid-19th century, lobster was considered a mark of poverty, and to be of little use beyond fertilizer and fish bait.
• TIL that Emmett Dalton, bank robber and member of the Dalton Gang, wrote a book about his crimes called Beyond the Law and starred in the 1918 movie adaptation, playing himself and his two brothers.
• TIL that Finnish people living in the capital Helsinki refer to the outermost ring road surrounding the city as the wolf border, with the implication that anything beyond it has no civilization/is savage. Outsiders then call the area inside the ring the biggest psychiatric hospital in Finland.
• TIL Iraq, Iran, and North Korea were referred to as the Axis of Evil in 2002. Cuba, Libya, and Syria were referred to as beyond the Axis of Evil.
• TIL the suns solar wind reaches far beyond the planets, and creates a protective shield that protects us from miscellaneous cosmic radiation. This bubble is called the Heliosphere.
• TIL that there is a branch of philosophy that is dedicated to studying what lies beyond metaphysics, and its called PATAPHYSICS
• TIL a Korean Admiral Yi Sun-Sin after torture humiliation and demotion, was reinstated again as Admiral. He went on to defeat the Japanese Navy of 333 ships with only 13 ships. No Korean ships were lost. The Japanese lost 33 and an additional 92 were damaged beyond repair.
• TIL: After seeing Schindlers List, Stanley Kubrick abandoned his own Holocaust film called Aryan Papers. He also eventually concluded that an accurate film about the Holocaust was beyond the capacity of cinema
• TIL both Terry McGinnis, the Batman in Batman Beyond, and his younger brother are the biological children of Bruce Wayne. Their fathers DNA was re-written by Amanda Waller to be an exact copy of Waynes in order to create a replacement Batman for Gotham City.
• TIL of Project Habakkuk, a plan by the British during the Second World War to construct an aircraft carrier out of pykrete (a mixture of wood pulp and ice) for use against German U-boats in the mid-Atlantic, which were beyond the flight range of land-based planes at that time.
• TIL that the black belt in martial arts does not indicate any type of mastery. It was for judo in the 1880s to indicate competency of all the basic techniques of the sport. Promotion beyond black belt varies among different martial arts (For example the highest rank in Judo is a solid red belt.).
• TIL 101st kilometre is a phrase for the law restricting freedom of movement in the Soviet Union. It was first coined after the 1980 Moscow Olympics when all undesirable elements were forcibly removed beyond the eastern boundary of the Moscow Oblast, 101 km from Moscow.
• TIL there are only 3 archaeological sites that lie beyond national boundaries, one of them being on the moon.
• TIL a model, Jasmine Fiore, was mutilated beyond recognition and was only able to be identified by the serial numbers of her breast implants.
• TIL a MiG-25 was tracked flying over Sinai at Mach 3.2 in the early 1970s, but the flight led to the engines being damaged beyond repair.
• TIL The Church of Scientology has specific Celebrity Centres with the distinct goal of recruiting celebrities that are just beyond or approaching their prime
• TIL arctic sailors stranded in 1596 saw the sunrise two weeks early - temperature differences bent the suns light well beyond the horizon
• TIL before takeoff on Delta Flight 1181, the pilots discussed what theyd say on the cockpit voice recorder if they got in a crash. This distraction caused them to forget to properly set the airplane for takeoff, which crashed just beyond the end of the runway, killing 14.
• TIL A FedEx pilot inverted a cargo jet pinning a hijacker to the ceiling of the plane, performing maneuvers beyond all known capabilities to land safely
• TIL Erich Remarque author of All Quiet on the Western Front fled to Switzerland during WW2, his sister stayed behind and was Guillotined by the SS. Your brother is unfortunately beyond our reach—you, however, will not escape us
• TIL The red hypergiant VY Canis Majoris is one of largest known stars. If placed at the center of the Solar System, its surface would extend beyond the orbit of Jupiter
• TIL: Cosmologist and Theoretical Physicist Laura Mersini-Houghton has stated that the recently discovered CMB cold spot is the unmistakable imprint of another universe beyond the edge of our own.
• TIL of Sedna, a dwarf planet with a highly elyptical orbit beyond Neptune. A hypothesis suggests it was placed in its orbit by a passing star, as there is no other explanation for its unusual orbit around the sun.
• TIL the most habitable location beyond Earth is 50km above the surface of Venus, with 1 bar air pressure, oxygen / nitrogen atmosphere and moderate temperatures.
• TIL It has been suggested that gold and other heavy elements are created from the collision of neutron stars. Such events may be responsible for the production of all chemical elements beyond iron.
• TIL During WWII, L Ron Hubbard once led a 68 hour battle against two Japanese submarines which he claimed definitely sunk, beyond doubt. An analysis later concluded that there were never any submarines in the area.
• TIL Batman Beyond: Return of the Jokers scenes were substantially re-edited shortly before its release due to the backlash against violence in films that followed after the Columbine High School massacre.
• TIL about the Lady in white aka Perla Siedle Gibson from South Africa who would stand at the port and sing for the servicemen as their ships sailed in and out of Durban during WW2 and beyond. She was a true inspiration and motivation for hundreds of thousands of soldiers and became famous for it.
• TIL In 61 AD, a party of Roman soldiers sent by Emperor Nero proceeded up the White Nile but were not able to get beyond the Sudd, which marked the limit of Roman penetration into equatorial Africa
• Til that the Pale was the small part of Ireland directly controlled by English during medieval times and that it refers to the stakes that hold together fences, from which we get Beyond the Pale.
• TIL low doses of ionizing radiation (above natural background levels) might be beneficial, stimulating the activation of repair mechanisms that protect against disease. ...its existence in the laboratory is beyond question and its mechanism of action appears well understood.
• TIL: The album “An empty bliss beyond this World,??? by the Caretaker was made by using cheap 1940’s ballroom records, and information from studies on how people with Alzheimer’s remember music.
• TIL that Oscar Wilde met Walt Whitman and later remarked to George Ives, an early gay rights activist, that Walt Whitmans sexuality was beyond question. I have the kiss of Walt Whitman still on my lips, he told Ives.
• TIL the Fujita scale (the scale used for determining the wind speed of tornadoes) goes beyond F5 all the way up to F12, which is the speed of sound.
• TIL 27 representatives and one senator have no education beyond high school
• TIL that Mussolini remarked about Aryanism, Thirty centuries of history allow us to look with supreme pity on certain doctrines which are preached beyond the Alps by the descendants of those who were illiterate when Rome had Caesar, Virgil and Augustus.
• TIL the Buzz Lightyear catch phrase To Infinity and Beyond was used by a father and son to keep track of each other while treading water for 15 hours.
• TIL that after her firstborn son became a Christian in 1980, famous atheist Madalyn Murray OHair said One could call this a postnatal abortion on the part of a mother, I guess; I repudiate him entirely and completely for now and all times ... he is beyond human forgiveness.
• TIL the continuation of a sentence beyond a line in a poem (without pause) has a name: enjambment. Pleasingly, its rooted in a French word which means to stride over.
• TIL in 2013, the US National Reconnaissance Office launched a spy satellite whos mission logo featured a giant octopus latched onto the Earth with the motto Nothing is Beyond Our Reach.
• TIL that anything beyond the first X in a film rating isnt legitimate, and that the intent of the X rating was for any material unsuitable for children
• TIL of the Praeneste fibula, a golden brooch which was accepted as the earliest known specimen of the Latin language. The authenticity had been disputed for years until a new analysis performed in 2011 declared it to be genuine beyond any reasonable doubt.
• TIL Viagra also makes cut flowers stand up straight, extending their shelf life a week beyond their natural life span
• TIL that beyond the scale of stars, galaxies, galactic clusters, superclusters, sheets, walls and filaments is a scale where the universe ceases to show unique structures and resembles a vast foam in every direction. This scale is referred to as the End of Greatness
• TIL Viagra dissolved in water can make cut flowers stand up straight for up to a week beyond their natural lifespan.
• TIL Since 2006 a group of 50 elite schools from 20 countries, the G20 Schools, hold a conference to: look beyond the parochial issues of their own schools and national associations and to discuss key issues facing education and their roles as educational leaders.
• TIL Aubrey De Grey, founder of the SENS Research Foundation which hopes to extend human life span well beyond 100 and eventual immortality, inherited 16.5 million dollars from the death of his mother. He put 13 million into the funding for SENS.
• TIL that Black Swan Theory is the idea that rare catastrophic events which are beyond the realm of normal expectation or predictability (but later inappropriately rationalized by hindsight) play a vastly larger role in the course of history than any predictable or foreseeable occurrence.
• TIL Pythagoras of Samos:570–495 BC created a practical joke called the Greedy cup. When filled beyond a certain point, a siphoning effect caused the cup to drain through a hole in the base spilling all of the wine on to the victim. Some modern toilets now operate on this principle.
• TIL on his descent from Everest Mountaineer David Sharp crawled into a cave and was passed by a number of other climbers heading to and returning from the summit as he was dying, including Discovery Channel crewmembers filming Everest: Beyond the Limit
• TIL that vuvuzelas raise health concern beyond hearing loss
• TIL that Olympus Mons is the largest volcano in the solar system. This Martian volcano is three times as tall as Mt. Everest and an observer near the summit would be unaware of standing on a high mountain, as the slope of the volcano would extend beyond the horizon.
• TIL in 1889 the poet Robert Browning recorded a poem using a white wax cylinder. When the recording was played in 1890 on the anniversary of his death, it was said to be the first time anyones voice had been heard from beyond the grave. The recording can be heard here.
• TIL that, depending on class, United States ships are named after US states, US rivers, US cities, and beyond that, by the President.
• TIL the origins of cheese-making is unknown and goes beyond recorded history. There is no conclusive evidence indicating where cheesemaking originated and goes as far back as 5500 - 8000 BCE.
• TIL that Madylan Ohare, a militant feminist and founder of American Atheists, disowned her son after he converted to Christianity. Madylan said he was beyond human forgiveness.
• TIL Batman Beyond was created to put Batman into a school setting.
• TIL that some macroscopic organisms are eutelic, meaning that every single adult member of that species has the same number of cells. Beyond that point, growth can only be achieved by cell expansion. Examples of species include tardigrades and nematodes
• TIL according to legend, Cnut, the 11th Century Viking King of England, Denmark and Norway, once commanded the tide to halt. His intent was to prove a point to members of his privy council that no man is all-powerful, and we all must bend to forces beyond our control, such as the tides.
• TIL that Enceladus, One of saturns moons, is the most habitable spot beyond Earth in the Solar System for life as we know it
• TIL The unsharpened area beyond the hilt of some two-hand swords facilitated faster cuts and more control. Called a Ricasso
• TIL that the Great Filter theory says that at some point from pre-life to type III intelligence there’s a wall that all or nearly all attempts at life hit. There’s some stage in the evolutionary process that is extremely unlikely or impossible for life to get beyond. That stage is The Great Filter.
• TIL The last time humans traveled beyond Low Earth Orbit was Apollo 17 in 1972.
• TIL Disney considered teaming up with the makers of the Myst video game to create an interactive experience to be called Myst Island. Guests would explore unusual locations and unravel a mystery about the islands previous inhabitants. Development never got beyond the concept stage.
• TIL Thatchers proposal to extend Britains administration in Hong Kong beyond 1997 was refuted by Deng Xiao Ping who stated that I could walk in and take the lot this afternoon. Years later in 1984, Britain agreed to return all of Hong Kong back to China.
• TIL California had an elevated dedicated bicycle highway in 1900 intended to connect the cities of Pasadena and Los Angeles, in California, but due to existing Pacific Electric Railway lines the cycleway never made a profit, and never extended beyond Arroyo Seco and the structure was dismantled.
• TIL that in 1958 a real estate developer and sociology professor purchased 80,000 acres of Mojave Desert land with the aim of master-planning Californias next great city. Today a vast grid of crumbling paved roads exists beyond city limits.
• TIL that Roger Cormans cheap Star Wars cash-in film Battle Beyond the Stars (1980) features special effects by James Cameron, music by James Horner and a screenplay by John Sayles.
• TIL that Joyce Brothers, the first person to win the eponymous grand prize on The $64 000 Question in 1955, was not actually supposed to win. The producers deliberately gave her difficult questions believed to be beyond her abilities as a woman, but Joyce answered them anyways.
• TIL that after the 1998 movie The Man From Earth was illegally shared via BitTorrent, the producer publically thanked the file sharers because it lifted the profile of the film far beyond the financiers expectations, and caused a rise in legal sales
• TIL of a French soldier called Tarrare, who could eat a meal intended for 15 people in a single sitting, ate live cats, snakes, lizards and puppies. He would also sweat profusely and had an odor that was described as fetid beyond all conception.
• TIL that Semisopochnoi Island, of the Aleutian islands of Alaska, is actually the EASTERN-most point of the United States, as it is beyond the 180th meridian.
• TIL there is little historical dispute that Jesus existed. What is disputed is the details of his life beyond Galilean, Baptised caused a commotion at a temple and had disciples
• TIL The Dobsonian telescope design is revolutionary due to the sheer size it made available to amateur astronomers. Whereas the amateur astronomer of the 1970s, 1980s did not explore much beyond the Messier, the amateur astronomer today can observe deep objects that only professional astronomers saw
• TIL the record for the worlds longest confirmed sniper kill is held by a British sniper, and was achieved 3000 feet beyond what his rifle was capable of
• TIL The Summer of Shark refers to the medias fixation of shark attacks during the summer 2001. It is remembered as an example of tabloid television perpetuating a story with no real merit beyond its ability to draw rating. It finally stopped after the attacks on 9/11/01.
• TIL Robert Smalls was an American slave who freed himself and crew in 1862 by commandeering the CSS Planter in Charleston harbor and sailing it beyond the Federal blockade. After the war he was elected to the US House. He was the last Republican to represent South Carolinas 5th district until 2010
• TIL the largest known star is so enormous, if it replaced the sun, its surface would extend beyond the current orbit of Saturn.
• TIL that Arwen, from Lord of the Rings, is far beyond a cougar, as she and Aragorn fell in love when she was 2,700 years old and Aragorn was only 20
• TIL that Saffir-Simpson only goes up to Category 5 because it is intended to measure severity of property damage, and beyond Cat 5 the damage is expected to be so severe that the nuance would serve no benefit
• TIL the motto of Spain was originally Non Plus Ultra (Nothing further beyond) but after the discovery of the New World it was reversed to be Plus Ultra (Further beyond).
• TIL That estimates suggest that 40% of all humans to have ever existed have not lived beyond their first birthday.
• TIL that NML Cygni, one of the largest known stars, is so large that if it was placed at the center of the solar system it would extend beyond Jupiter
• TIL that Savings Accounts in the U.S. can only have 6 transactions per month according to Federal Law. Anything beyond that, the account holder gets penalized or may be even forced to close the account
• TIL the worlds oldest joint-stock corporation, the East India Company, was also the longest surviving, spanning 274 years, run by the wealthy merchants, beyond government control, had its own private armies and ruled a sub-continent by means of political and economic subjugation.
• TIL That in Scotland there is a 3rd verdict beyond guilty and not guilty: not proven.
• TIL that if VY Canis Majoris, the largest known star, was placed at the center of our solar system its surface would extend beyond the orbit of Saturn
• TIL Ernie Lombardi once hit a home run that landed in a truck traveling beyond the outfield fence. The truck carried the ball for 30 miles. Writers facetiously called this the longest home run in history.
• TIL That psilocybin mushrooms were introduced to the western world by the tv show One Step Beyond, and the host was filmed after taking some.
• TIL Saturns moon Enceladus has gysers that shoot large jets of water vapor into space and according to NASA is emerging as the most habitable spot beyond Earth in the Solar System for life as we know it.
• TIL You are technically an astronaut if youve ever flown beyond the altitude of 50 miles above sea level, according to the US Air Forces definition of an astronaut.
• TIL Mars Olympus Mons, the tallest known volcano in the solar system, has such a gradual slope, someone standing at the base would not be able to see the summit because its beyond the horizon.
• TIL a recessed landscape design element that creates a vertical barrier while preserving an uninterrupted view of the landscape beyond is called a ha-ha
• TIL Zen Buddhism was founded after the Buddha gave a lecture without words, where he held up a white flower. Only Mah??k??śyapa smiled and understood the meaning: the ineffable nature of reality and how ultimate wisdom is beyond words.
• TIL: Russia made a movie adaption of The Hobbit in 1985 called The Fabulous Journey of Mr. Bilbo Baggins, The Hobbit, Across the Wild Land, Through the Dark Forest, Beyond the Misty Mountains. There and Back Again
• TIL Street Spirit is the (absolute) saddest song Radiohead plays, beyond the level typically perceived by their audience. Prepare to be permanently haunted by Thom Yorkes explanation of this song.
• TIL that most prescription and over-the-counter drugs are safe and effective far beyond their printed expiration dates.
• TIL The reign of Jimmu, the first emperor of Japan, is unknown. Most modern historians dismiss this entire period as being beyond what history can know. Jimmu supposedly died at the age of 126.
• TIL Joyce Brothers became famous in the 1950s for becoming the first woman to win the game show The $64,000 Question, despite the fact that the shows producers did not want her to win and deliberately gave her questions perceived to be beyond her ability, which she answered correctly anyway
• TIL the shot of Luke running out of the Wampa cave in ‘Empire Strikes Back’ was achieved by having Mark Hamill running out of the hotel the crew was staying at into the Norwegian snow beyond. At the time, they were being hit with the worst winter storm the area had gotten in 50 years.
• TIL in 1916 that 5 people were bitten by a great white shark on the coast of New Jersey (4 killed). Before this, it was widely believed that sharks were harmless on the US East Coast, with an expert saying it is beyond the power even of the largest Carcharodon to sever the leg of an adult man.
• TIL About the mysterious Cleaning Events that happen on Mars that has allowed the Rovers to operate beyond their 90 Day missions, up to 13 YEARS now.
• TIL the highly expensive paint Ultramarine blue is named not after its ocean-blue color, but instead means from beyond the sea (i.e. imported from Asia)
• TIL that theres a Welsh settlement in Argentina called Y Wladfa, where they speak Patagonian Welsh. It was set up in 1865 as a little Wales beyond Wales.
• TIL In China, women who remain unmarried in their late 20s and beyond are called Sheng nu which means leftover women.
• TIL In George Washington’s farewell address, he warned against foreign influence in domestic affairs, bitter partisanship in domestic politics, permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world, and called for men to move beyond partisanship and serve the common good.
• TIL that there is a live action Batman Beyond screenplay written by the makers of the show, but Warner Bros. is restarting the series again instead of making it.
• TIL that in China, women who remain unmarried in their late 20s and beyond are called Sheng nu which means leftover women.
• TIL there used to be a Latin warning describing the Strait of Gibraltar: NON PLUS ULTRA, or Nothing further beyond. After Spain reaped huge rewards proving that this wasnt quite true, they made their national motto PLUS ULTRA, or Further beyond.
• TIL that Pluto was not only named after the god of the underworld, but the first two letters were a homage to Percival Lowell, the scientist who initiated the search for a celestial body beyond Neptune.
• TIL Fubar bundy is a military acronym that stands for F**cked up beyond all recognition but unfortunately not dead yet. Usage: We got a guy thats fubar bundy out here. Need evac immediately!
• TIL that there is a rare blood type beyond the usual ABO groups, found only in 0.0004% of the general population, but 0.01% of the population in Mumbai.
• TIL Japanese voice actress Tomoko Kaneda can produce sounds at a frequency beyond that of human hearing, and grew 4cm in height between the ages of 29 and 37.
• TIL that prior to Harry Harlows controversial experiments on infant rhesus monkeys, the medical community in the US believed that physical contact between mother and infant wasnt necessary beyond feeding. His findings were considered revolutionary at the time, but are now widely accepted.
• TIL that Warner Bros planned on making a Batman Beyond live action film, but shelved the project and would later make Batman Begins insted. The project is has been on hold since August 2001
• TIL that after 25-years as CEO of McDonalds, Don Thompson left the company to sit on the board of a vegan company called Beyond Meat.