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TIL Kings of Leon wrote a chorus with the filler lyrics "My sex is on fire," intended only as a placeholder while they tried to come up with something better, but they never did

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e0YD5 TIL the voice recordings of "A Charlie Brown Christmas," were completed in one day. The sophisticated dialogue meant phrases such as "eastern syndicate," were difficult for the young child actors to pronounce. Jefferson Airplane was recording next door and came over to get the children's autographs.
OoMre TIL that serial killer Tommy Lynn Sells killed a boy whose own mother was found guilty of the murder. Authorities refused to believe it was the work of a serial killer until 2 years later at a retrial. The prosecutor, not wanting to be in the wrong, still claims that the mother did it.
pgM4 TIL In 2012, the world’s first lab grown burger cost $325,000. By 2015, a lab grown burger only cost $11.36.
Yykv TIL Iraq used to have one of the worlds largest marshes until Saddam drained them into a desert
E1xAV TIL the lion roar sound effects used in The Lion King are not actual lions, but voice actor Frank Welker growling and screaming into a metal trash can.