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TIL that in 1915 a man by the excellent of name Cecil Chubb went to an auction to buy some furniture for his wife. He came back as the owner of Stonehenge for £6600. According to local legend, his wife would’ve rather had the furniture.

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NXxVM TIL Japan Air Lines Flight 123, being flown by a Boeing 747, crashed on August 12, 1986 due to complications from improper repairs made to the plane by Boeing after a tailstrike in 1978. The crash of Flight 123 is the deadliest single-aircraft accident in aviation history.
6E0j7 TIL that the bubonic plague still circulates in New Mexico among prairie dogs, and that dogs can catch infected fleas and spread it to humans
ABPx TIL that one of the first films ever recorded on Thomas Edison’s Kinetograph was a shot of two cats wearing boxing gloves and fighting each other in a boxing ring. It is titled “Prof. Welton’s Boxing Cats.” Very likely the first cat video ever recorded.
OoVQL TIL that the name "Lucifer" means "bearer of Light". it is banned in New Zealand and in Germany, a couple wasn't allowed to use the name due to it's connotation with Satan and evil. While in USA, a record 13 baby boys were named this in 2016.
9wBWD TIL about William Ellsworth Robinson, a white American man who performed magic under the name "Chung Ling Soo", pretending to be a Chinese man who spoke no English. The only time he spoke English while performing was when he was mistakenly shot and killed while performing a bullet catch trick.