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TIL in 1878 Vera Zasulich shot and seriously wounded Fyodor Trepov, the notoriously cruel governor of St Petersburg, after he ordered the flogging of a political prisoner who refused to remove his hat in his presence. A sympathetic judge and jury, and a skilled lawyer led to her getting acquitted

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4ka9N TIL that the "Liner, wet weather, poncho" or Poncho liner, was first used by U.S. personnel during the early stages of the Vietnam War. One theory for it's nickname "Woobie" was in reference to a child's security blanket from the movie Mr. Mom.
rN7EW TIL: The widely-reported study that men leave their wives due to illness more often than women leave husbands was retracted in 2015 because an error in the data analysis code classified "no response" from men as "choosing divorce" which rendered the original results invalid and skewed.
p5ep TIL that months after Genghis Khan sacked Zhongdu (Beijing) in 1215, the bones of the vanquished were thought to be white-capped mountains from a distance, and the approaching roads were nearly impassable from the grease of decomposing victims.
wLGg7 TIL that honey could kill a baby because of Botulism spores that release toxins causing muscle weakness and breathing issues. Adults don't have the same risk as the stomach acid is strong enough to kill the spores.
611Q TIL in 1976, a struggling Princeton undergrad wrote his junior term paper on how to make an atomic bomb, using information he gathered from physics textbooks and declassified documents. He got an A in the class, but never got his paper back because it was seized by the US government.