Today

woyNM TIL that the film, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, was the first feature film to be entirely color corrected by digital means.
691bl TIL, The First Death of a NASA Astronaut, Theodore Freeman, occurred because a goose flew into his aircraft during a test flight.
OG4jX TIL that Sara Blakely, founder of Spanx, bombed the LSAT, was rejected from the role of Goofy at Disney World, and was stuck selling fax machines for a living. She was named the youngest female self-made billionaire in 2012.
X0VjQ TIL Ayman al zawahiri (2nd in command to bin laden) was killed by a drone made of 6 large blades known as “the ginsu”
VBOjZ TIL about Curse of the Queerwolf, a 1988 movie where a man is bitten by a cross-dresser, which turns the main character into a cross-dresser every full moon.
epyjb TIL in 2007, a couple dissatisfied with their marriage went to online forums and unknowingly began talking with each other and discussing their marriage issues. When the husband and wife tried to cheat on their spouse with this "new person", they were in for a shock. They divorced soon after.
x67rD TIL there is some chimpanzee populations that inhabit the savanna and act differently then the forest populations for example using caves, filtering drinking water, walking more on two legs than forest chimpz do and more. There is an Arte documentary on YouTube with them filtering water.
4kmbw TIL Megabats have a wingspan of up to 5 feet (1.5 meters)
nWywY TIL the emergency number in Mozambique is 119, or in other words: 911 backwards.
9w5bm TIL that Stephen King discarded the initial pages of Carrie until his wife retrieved them from the trash. This led to the publication of his first novel, which became a phenomenal success, launching his career into the multi-million-dollar industry
W7Xj8 TIL In 1937 the city of Vancouver banned white women from working in Chinese-owned restaurants because Chinese bachelor men were viewed by white Vancouverites as a threat to white women
R5Wj6 TIL there is a mineral called Cummingtonite. It is named after the town of Cummington, Massachusetts, rather than being a tongue-in-cheek reference.