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TIL Jack White holds a grudge against Guinness World Records who don’t acknowledge his shortest concert of all time record attempt.

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xVpLg TIL The biggest tuna ever recorded weighed an incredible 1,496 pounds! Caught on October 26, 1979, fishing with Capt. Eric Samson aboard Lady and Misty out of Port Hood, Nova Scotia.
Lk6Gp TIL in 1926, Poland sent the US a birthday card with over 5 million signatures. Polish citizen Leopold Kotnowski visited the White House to present the card for America’s 150th birthday. It has 30,000 pages full of art, photos, poems and pressed flowers.
wLEW TIL the leadership of the Communist Party of China are mostly professional engineers, thus China is in fact a Technocracy.
69EW8 TIL that the reason the English football club Sheffield Wednesday is named after the day of the week is because the factory workers who played for the team had a half day on Wednesday
DQDke TIL about Hevisaurus, a Finnish Heavy Metal band for children. They are the second Finnish band to have their picture in the Hard Rock Cafe, as well as being in their international database of artists and bands (Amorphis being the first to receive this honor).