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TIL that ever since James Bond’s very first appearance as a character (nearly 70 years ago in the 1953 novel Casino Royale), all the way through every single book and movie adaptation, there has been exactly one monarch of Britain: Queen Elizabeth II.

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woXG8 TIL that from 1915 to 1952, film was not protected under the First Amendment, because the Supreme Court (voting 9-0) saw film as "a business, pure and simple, originated and conducted for profit" and therefore subject to government censorship, resulting in the strict "Hays Code" in 1934
WkDNN TIL About a bunch of stuff because National Geographic has a huge library of short "101" videos
DEAY TIL that Indian spacecraft Mangalyaan’s journey from Earth to Mars took 6 months, which is less than Christopher Columbus’ first journey from Europe to America (8 months)
gV84 TIL that George Lucas was heavily influenced by Canadian avant-garde filmmakers and borrowed the idea for The Force from the film 21-87 by director Arthur Lipsett (and the # of Leia’s holding cell on the Death Star was…. 2187)
NXV6P TIL a sultan of Morocco, Isma‘il ibn Sharif, owned a private army called "The Black Guard" comprised of West African and Haratin slave-soldiers. Considered more loyal than the locals because of their lack of tribal affiliation, Isma‘il's black soldiers formed the bulk of his army, numbering at 150k.