My Chinese ancestors would be rolling in their graves if I called Ranch 99 by the wrong name.

For all my fellow Terra Linda Trojans from San Rafael

TIL only one genuine 1983 model year Corvette exists in the world. Every other Corvette from that year was crushed.

TIL Michael Bay was under consideration to direct the movie Phone Booth (2002), but he was removed from consideration after the first question he had about the script was, "OK, how do we get this thing out of the damn telephone booth?"

YSK There's a generic automatic self-cleaning litter box that has killed multiple cats due to the way it's designed. No recall has been issued and it's still being sold under a number of different brands (or no brand at all) on retail websites like Amazon, Wayfair, AliExpress, and Temu.

There's a generic automatic self-cleaning litter box that has killed multiple cats due to the way it's designed. No recall has been issued and it's still being sold under a number of different brands (or no brand at all) on retail websites like Amazon, Wayfair, AliExpress, Temu, and TikTok.

PSA: There's a generic automatic self-cleaning litter box that has killed multiple cats due to the way it's designed. No recall has been issued and it's still being sold under a number of different brands (or no brand at all) on retail websites like Amazon, Wayfair, AliExpress, Temu, and TikTok.

Kotoku Wamura, mayor of a Japanese village called Fudai, was mocked for spending billions of public funds on a floodgate, until the floodgate ended up saving the village from the 2011 Japan Tsunami.

Appliance and Tractor Companies Lobby Against Giving the Military the Right to Repair

TIL in 2021, a single deli in New Jersey that was publicly traded managed to achieve a market capitalization of over $100 million despite doing only $35,000 in sales across two years. The deli's largest shareholder was the wrestling coach of the high school next door.

Increased sausage demand could be worrying signal on the economy

TIL the 2010 Flash Crash, during which the US stock market temporarily lost $1 trillion in value, was partly caused by Navinder Sarao, an autistic man living in his parents' London home. In a span of 5 years, Sarao made a profit of $40 million by tricking high frequency traders with custom software.

Major 'National Public Data' Leak Worse Than Expected With Passwords Stored in Plain Text

Footage of a Nintendo Power Line (Nintendo Power's hotline) employee helping someone with questions about The Legend of Zelda.

TIL the distributor for the movie Snowpiercer (2013) requested that the scene involving a fish be removed, but director Bong Joon-ho convinced them to keep it in by lying about his father being a fisherman and claiming the scene was dedicated to him. Bong's father was never a fisherman.

TIL that from 1988 to 2016, the maker of Sriracha sauce, Huy Fong Foods, sourced all their peppers from a single supplier based solely on a verbal agreement, sealed with a nod and a handshake, not contracts or lawyers.

TIL one of the reasons Target Canada failed was because some items wouldn't fit on the shelves properly. This was due to item dimensions being entered into their system in inches, rather than centimeters.

Tesla advises against using wet towels to accelerate Supercharging

Trash dropped by a North Korean balloon falls on South Korea’s presidential compound

The Sega Dreamcast, released in 1998, had a memory card that could be run independently as a mobile game console itself. When plugged into the Dreamcast controller, it could serve as a secondary screen (for example, while playing splitscreen multiplayer, secret information could be displayed).

Surgeries and doctor's appointments canceled amid global IT outage

‘Back to the stone age’: IndiGo, SpiceJet issue handwritten boarding passes amid Microsoft outage

TIL about "Hobson's Choice". It labels an illusion of free choice where only one thing is actually offered.

For the love of God, stay off the roads as Beryl floodwaters recede

TIL That Japan's fertility rate dropped dramatically for a one year in 1966 because of the superstition of "Fire-Horse" — it was thought that any women born during this year would "have a bad personality and will kill their future husband."