Today I Learned 🎓

TIL Dolly Parton voiced the character of Murph, Ms. Frizzle’s cousin, in an episode of The Magic School Bus that aired on Christmas Day 1996. [Source]

TIL that despite leaving the EU—and never adopting the Euro as its currency—London still clears ~90% of all global Euro-denominated interest rate derivatives, processing over €1 Trillion ($1.1T+) every single day [Source]

TIL Thailand briefly occupied a small territory of Germany- about 20,000 people- after World War 1 from 1918 to 1919. [Source]

TIL that in the US, osteopathic doctors are fully licensed physicians like MDs, while in many other countries, osteopaths are non-physician manual therapists whose wider health claims often lack scientific evidence. [Source]

TIL Napoleon Dynamite (2004) has a post credit wedding scene that cost $200,000, half as much again as the whole film, and is one of the longest post credit scenes. Also the scene itself wasn’t added until weeks into the movies general release. [Source]

TIL that 6 years prior to the Apollo 1 tragedy, the USSR had their own oxygen fire tragedy, resulting in the death of cosmonaut Valentin Bondarenko. The USSR concealed this from the public, leading to the USA making the same mistake in 1967. Bondarenko’s death was not publicly…