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TIL about the Bystander Effect. A social phenomenon where individuals witnessing a crime or accident are less likely to help depending on the number of bystanders. The more bystanders, the less likely it is that one of them will help.

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5VVVr TIL that the James Bond Movies "The Spy Who Loved Me" and "Moonraker" strayed so far from Ian Fleming's novels that Eon Productions authorized the screenwriter for both, Christopher Wood, to write novelizations based upon the films, rather than promote the original novels.
PYVLJ TIL that Jurassic Park might have contributed to the overfishing of the toothfish (aka "Chilean sea bass"). The fish was served in the movie and exploded in popularity in restaurants. Correlation isn't causation, but this article outlines several other examples of movie-inspired animal crazes.
kJeDd TIL Scotland has 421 words for snow. This is because they have words to describe every type of snow, such as steels (to start raining or snowing), feefle (to swirl), and flinkdrinkin (a light snow).
e0ye6 TIL Marshall Mabey was a $1 a day NYC tunnel worker called "Sandmen". On Feb 19 he was working under the East River where the tunnel was pressurized to prevent cave ins. A crack in the ceiling vented Mabey up through the mud, the East River and 25 feet into the air. He lived and was uninjured.
Wk6BX TIL A fictitious soft drink was created to prove the effectiveness of advertising on buses. So many people started demanding it that the drink actually starting being made by restaurants and soft drink companies