TIL Glass fiber dresses were a fad for a few years in the 1890s, and the NYT even predicted they’d be more popular [source, comments]

Today I learned that the USS Samuel B Roberts is the deepest shipwreck in the world. [source, comments]

TIL there are no records of a panda having killed a human. [source, comments]

TIL A man injected thousands of counterfeit $2 coins into Canada’s banking system by making large deposits into his personal accounts. They are known as "Camel Toe toonies" because fake coins have outsized toes on the polar bear’s right paw [source, comments]

TIL that the character Frieza from Dragon Ball Z, known for his ruthless destruction of planets to profit from their resale, was inspired by the behavior of real estate speculators during Japan's economic bubble in the 1980s [source, comments]

TIL hat Richard Pryor's off-screen drug issues cost both him and Gene Wilder a major success. They were originally set to star as the leads in Trading Places [source, comments]

TIL Johnny Depp was the first person to hear Glass Animals' #1 Billboard hit "Heat Waves". Lead singer Dave Bayley was writing it late at night in a London studio when Depp, working in another studio, snuck into the room while searching for the restroom and listened to the entire unreleased track. [source, comments]

TIL that coastal redwood trees can sequester 250 metric tons of carbon in their 2,500 year lifespan. The largest, the General Sherman tree, has sequestered 392 metric tons of carbon and is still growing. [source, comments]

TIL Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee Theatre Research Institute at Ohio State University is not named after the confederate general, but the American playwright of the same name. His wife voiced many Hanna Barbara characters. [source, comments]

TIL that 20 of the 50 oldest living people are Japanese [source, comments]