TIL Argentina has a radio station that is broadcast from a mental institution in Buenos Aires and interviews the patients. It has 12 million listeners and is actually called called “Crazy Radio”

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4120397.stm

TIL that decorated Medal of Honor winner Audie Murphy helped bring attention to PTSD after his own post-war experiences.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audie_Murphy#Personal_life

TIL A company in Georgia, USA will mix your ashes following your cremation with cement and drop it to the bottom of the ocean to form an artificial reef.

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/nation/2008-10-24-2008031339_x.htm

TIL in 1995 during a White House visit Russian president Boris Yeltsin was found drunk on Pennsylvania Avenue in his underwear trying to hail a cab to go get pizza

http://www.politico.com/blogs/glennthrush/0909/Yeltsin_drunk_In_his_underwear_Hailing_a_cab.html

TIL In Newfoundland there is a berry called a bakeapple. The word comes from French "Baie qu'appelle?" meaning "What's this berry called?"

http://www.eat-this-town.com/newfoundland-6-unique-foods/

TIL that if you shrunk the sun down to a single white blood cell (7 micrometers) and then shrunk the Milky Way Galaxy to the same scale, it would be the size of the Continental United States

http://www.picomazing.com/the-size-of-the-sun-compared-to-the-milky-way/

TIL Egyptians, Palestinians, and Iranians held ceremonies in their countries mourning the deaths of nearly three thousand Americans in the September 11th terrorist attacks

http://mugsysrapsheet.com/2010/09/09/remembering-the-real-world-after-911-with-photos/

TIL that John Hopkins University conducted a study of mushrooms with 36 college-educated adults (average age of 46) who had never tried psilocybin nor had a history of drug use. More than two-thirds reported it was among the top five most spiritually significant experiences in their lives.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psilocybin_mushroom#Spiritual_and_well_being

TIL the US Pledge of Allegiance was conceived by a magazine to sell American flags to public schools

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Bellamy?view#The_Pledge

TIL that male puppies will let female puppies win at play fighting so that they will continue to play with them

http://healthydogclub.com/2012/11/when-puppies-play-young-boy-dogs-often-let-the-girls-win-anything-to-keep-the-game-going/

TIL that in the 1830's the Crow Nation had a female chief who was a hunter, horse-rider and warrior and that she took four women as wives.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pine_Leaf

TIL a clinic in Cape Cod once offered a coupon for a free pizza as part of their March Madness Vasectomy promotion, so men can watch the basketball games while on couch rest and get a free pizza

http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/03/19/can-basketball-and-free-pizza-tempt-you-into-getting-a-vasectomy/

TIL 26% of American adults DO NOT know that the Earth orbits the sun, 49% think antibiotics kill viruses, 47% believe electrons are larger than atoms, 53% think Lasers work by focusing sound waves, according to a survey done by the National Science Board. Other figures and countries included. (PDF)

http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/seind14/content/chapter-7/chapter-7.pdf

TIL In Australia no one has died from spider bites since 1979, and only about 7 people die a year from combined snake/shark/crocodile/jellyfish "attacks".

http://gobackpacking.com/deadly-animals-australia/



http://gobackpacking.com/deadly-animals-australia/

TIL in 2003 and 2004 Boycotts of the sponsors of The Masters golf tournament ensued due to their men-only club rule. The golf club responded by dropping all three of their sponsors and running the tournament ad-free.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masters_Tournament#United_States_television

TIL When Paris fell to the Nazis on June 14, 1940, French resistance fighters cut the elevator cables to the Eiffel Tower. This meant that if Hitler wanted to hoist a swastika flag, a soldier would have to climb the roughly 1710 stairs to the summit platform.

http://bit.ly/ODtZMG

TIL Roosevelt wanted to pass a 2nd Bill of Rights that would help assure financial equality, or the "Economic Bill of Rights"

http://bit.ly/1l5EENX

TIL Pistachios are prone to spontaneous combustion when stored in large quantities.

http://bit.ly/1hE8d3W

TIL that Jeanne Calment, the oldest human to have ever lived, smoked from the age of 21 until she gave up the habit at 117.

http://cnn.it/OyKedZ

TIL that in 1978 a lone pilot flying in Australia reported to air traffic control that he was being accompanied by an aircraft above him. Asked to identify the aircraft, he radioed "It isn't an aircraft". His plane disappeared and has never been found.

http://bit.ly/OyKdXC