Today

P1D7O TIL a 31-year-old Brazilian billionaire with no heirs allegedly left his entire $1 billion fortune to Neymar in a legally registered will because he admired the player’s humility and family values.
8eOkX TIL of Mostellaria, a 3rd century BC play by the Roman author Titus Maccius Plautus. Mostellaria is notable for containing the earliest surviving reference to Alexander III of Macedon as "Alexander the Great".
l7b95 TIL that during the Revolutionary War, lower Westchester County, NY became a lawless "neutral ground" between British and American forces, where civilians endured constant raids and pillaging because neither side could maintain order. Amidst the chaos, residents "feared everybody whom they saw."
NXJEQ TIL King William III of England died after he was thrown from his horse when it stumbled in a mole's burrow. The Jacobites would later toast to the mole, referring to him as "the little gentleman in the black velvet waistcoat".
rNbXy TIL that the National Railway Company of Luxembourg has two stations located in France - Audun-le-Tiche & Volmerange-les-Mines. The two stations are only connected to the Luxembourg rail network and have no direct connection to the French rail network.
BgY6K TIL that during the cremation process of a 500 pound body, the corpse was so obese that it set the crematorium on fire.
Y7b6v TIL about Nintendo's King Koopa's Kool Kartoons, an American children's television show broadcast in Southern California during the Autumn of 1989. The show was canceled after 65 episodes and is now considered lost media
Eg7VV TIL - in 1963, Robert A Baker published a book called “Stress analysis of a strapless evening gown” - to explain how these dresses were able to stay up without shoulder straps
kJbnW TIL that the Zorse is the offspring of a zebra stallion and a horse mare. It is a zebroid, a designation that refers to any hybrid equine with zebra ancestry.
786EL TIL In 1959, during the Candidates’ chess tournament in Yugoslavia, Pal Benko wore dark glasses in his match against Mikhail Tal to avert Tal’s gaze. In response, Tal borrowed a pair of large sunglasses from a member of the crowd and wore them as a joke.
Zpb5G TIL that “Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp,” a 1960s/1970s spy show for kids, in which the characters were all portrayed by chimpanzees, was the most expensive Saturday morning program ever filmed to that date, with a budget of over $1.5 million for the season.
a8bNL TIL that fava beans can cause your red blood cells to self destruct (haemolytic anemia) if you have an inherited G6PD enzyme deficiency (aka Favism).