🎓 TIL - Today I Learned but no 🐝

TIL of Eva Saxl, a type 1 diabetic who ran out of insulin during WW2 and made insulin from water buffaloes. It saved the lives of over 200 people in the Shanghai Ghetto. [source, comments]

TIL of Guðlaugur Friðþórsson, a fisherman who in 1984 survived 6 hours in 5 °C cold water after his ship sank and then trekked barefoot for 3 hours across lava fields before reaching safety. Despite only wearing shirt, sweater and jeans, he showed almost no symptoms of hypothermia or vasodilatation. [source, comments]

TIL that drawing the time on a clock is a test used to check for signs of dementia [source, comments]

TIL 'zombie fires' are fires that burned during the summer, stay underground all winter long and pop up above the surface again in the spring. [source, comments]

TIL the state of Delaware has twice as many corporations as people. [source, comments]

Til no child with type I diabetes survived until adulthood before 1922. [source, comments]

TIL: Contactless payments such as phones, cards, etc have numerous studies that shows users spend more. This is due to the removal of the "psychological pain" of spending. Users will spend twice as much. Coincidentally, the rise of frictionless payment correlates with rising consumer debt worldwide. [source, comments]

TIL the reason why older Japanese paints have women with black lips is not to provide contrast, but because they actually represent black teeth which was a common custom of the time. [source, comments]

TIL WW1 ended at 11th hour on the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918. The last trench veteran of WW1, Harry Patch, died on July 25 2009, aged 111 years, 1 month, 1 week and 1 day [source, comments]

TIL There is no record of a cheetah ever killing a human in the wild [source, comments]