TIL about Null Island, the geographical location where the prime meridian and the equator intersect. It's located at 0° degrees longitude and 0° degrees latitude (0° N, 0° E). Is not really an island since there isn't any landmass. [source, comments]

TIL the three most popular drugs in the world are alcohol, tobacco, and caffeine. The fourth is the betel nut. [source, comments]

TIL that Levi's recommends that jeans be worn 10 times between washes. [source, comments]

TIL that the Notorious B.I.G., Jay-Z, and Busta Rhymes all attended George Westinghouse Career and Technical Education High School in Brooklyn, NY at the same time. Busta Rhymes and Jay-Z even once rap-battled each other in the lunch room. [source, comments]

TIL a castle in France has been under construction since 1997 using only 13th-century techniques, tools, and local materials: The Guédelon Castle [source, comments]

TIL Mercury, not Venus, is, on average, the closest planet to Earth [source, comments]

TIL Travis Barker credited Animal from The Muppets as his first ever hero and his inspiration to pursue drumming. In 1998, before his first show with Blink-182, he didn't have much time to prepare. He learned the drum tracks for the 20-song setlist in only 45 minutes and performed them flawlessly. [source, comments]

TIL that Tyrannosaurus rex had a binocular visual range wider than modern hawks and may have been able to see up to 6 km (3.7 miles) away. [source, comments]

TIL that George Washington’s farewell address talks about the evils of patriotism and the danger of political parties BUT ALSO about religion’s importance and avoiding foreign influence in politics [source, comments]

TIL that after British R&B singer Mark Morrison ("Return of the Mack") was sentenced to public service for participating in a pub brawl in 1998, he hired a lookalike to perform the sentence so Morrison could go on tour [source, comments]

TIL that scientists just discovered a safer alternative contrast agent to the toxic and radioactive uranyl acetate for staining biological samples in electron microscopy: coffee [source, comments]

TIL that Faggots in Gravy are a traditional UK food made of spiced offal meatballs (Faggots) and often served with a rich onion or ale gravy. [source, comments]

TIL about the Wide Awakes; a youth organization and marching club formed shortly before the American Civil War. Groups would march at night to the beat of a drum, holding 6' torches, dressed in black, and would march in silence with their eyes straight ahead [source, comments]

TIL Sony was founded in 1946 as Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo and their initial product was a commercially unsuccessful electric rice cooker that often burned or undercooked rice. [source, comments]

TIL that before the radiation hazards of X-rays were widely recognized, shoe stores from the 1920s until about the 1970s used X-ray machines called shoe-fitting fluoroscopes to show customers their feet inside shoes. [source, comments]

TIL what a Muntjac is: the size of a Labrador and barks like a dog, yet has fangs like a snake and doesn't eat meat [source, comments]

TIL of 1940s radio show 'The Lonesome Gal'. Actress Jean King pretended to have a one-on-one conversation with the listener in a seductive voice, with a mic that “pick[ed] up each whisp of her breath." She amassed thousands of fans in over 50 cities and wore a mask in photos to protect herself. [source, comments]

TIL about Charles Rogers, a seismologist and pilot who's been missing since 1965 when the dismembered bodies of his elderly parents were found in the refrigerator of the home that all 3 shared. [source, comments]

TIL that in 2000, Firestone recalled about 14 million tires linked to rollover accidents, leading Ford to recall millions of vehicles and permanently ending their century-long partnership. [source, comments]

TIL Adult entertainers in Portland, Oregon, have been raising money for Children's Hospital for the last 14 years through an event called "Tatas for Toys [source, comments]