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TIL when the Japanese emperor reclaimed power from the shogunate in 1868, the losing side fled to Hokkaido and declared a republic modeled on the United States

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YpGnd TIL there's an underwater mountain in the middle Lake Superior that rises from the lake bottom (400 feet down) to as high as 21 feet below the surface. Some say Superior Shoal was responsible for the 1975 wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.
7rQgL TIL the 2nd highest grossing movie in Japan in the 1980s after E.T. was a $100,000 film called Cannibal Holocaust, which was so violent the director was arrested & charged with making a snuff movie. Although now viewed as one of the top horror movie of all time, it is still banned in many countries.
bn09 TIL that there is a parasitic worm in grasshoppers that, when fully grown, makes the grasshopper seek water and drown to return the parasite to water.
KOyNB TIL that when Magic: The Gathering first started, there were several Demon cards, but due to fears of a moral panic like with D&D, in 1995 they stopped printing Demon cards, and any demonic-looking creature was now called "Horror". They eventually brought Demons back in 2002.
Y7ODr TIL the original title of Mein Kampf (A. Hitler, 1925) was Viereinhalb Jahre (des Kampfes) gegen Lüge, Dummheit und Feigheit, which translates as Four and a Half Years (of Struggle) Against Lies, Stupidity and Cowardice. Max Amann, the head of Eher Verlag, suggested the catchier title.