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TIL there is a message on the Fight Club DVD from Tyler Durden that lasts for one second: “Get out of your apartment. Meet a member of the opposite sex. Stop the excessive shopping and masturbation. Quit your job. Start a fight. Prove you’re alive.”

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Qg79 TIL in 1966 Playboy sent a black journalist to interview George Lincoln Rockwell, founder of the American Nazi Party. “He took out a pearl-handled revolver, placed it pointedly on the arm of his chair, sat back and spoke for the first time: ‘I’m ready if you are.’”
LklRv TIL the translation for 'breakfast' in Brazil is 'cafe da manha' which literally translates to 'coffee of the morning'. Brazil is the world's largest coffee producer.
oBV8Y TIL that Sebastian Arcelus, best known for appearing in House of Cards and Madam Secretary, is in the line of succession to the British throne. His maternal grandfather was an Italian nobleman, his maternal grandmother was a Russian princess, and his great-great-grandfather was the King of Serbia.
LkVg9 TIL that the actor who played Beef Supreme, the Rehabilitation star in Idiocracy, is Andrew Wilson, older brother of actors Owen and Luke Wilson.
9YDEm TIL of the 2008 K2 disaster, where in one day 11 climbers lost their lives on the second highest mountain in the world.