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TIL that depressed people literally see the world in a darker color.

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x5VB TIL in investigating prostitution at a Seattle strip club, an undercover cop visited the club 160 times, spent at least $16,835 of taxpayer money on 130 lap dances and an undetermined number of undocumented dances, and never made a single arrest.
gMJwA TIL that when the British monarchy was restored in 1660 under Charles II, the body of Oliver Cromwell was dug up, hanged in chains and beheaded as a posthumous execution for the crime of signing Charles I's death warrant. His head was then owned by various people till its burial in 1960.
jvEE TIL that J.J Tomson was awarded a Nobel prize for discovering particle like nature of electron while his son G.P. Thomson is awarded Nobel prize for discovering wave like nature of electron
Ogka TIL that Sesame Street’s Count von Count penchant for numbers is not only a pun on his name, but vampire legends often indicate arithomania, or a fixation on counting small objects.
54Yn TIL Len’s iconic 90s music video for “Steal My Sunshine” came about after the band decided to spend their entire $100,000 music video budget on alcohol and partying in Florida during Spring Break, without a storyboard or plan.