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TIL that a man named Tatsuo Horiuchi has been using Microsoft Excel to create award-winning artwork for over 13 years

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lEp7 TIL that Benjamin Franklin misspelled “Pennsylvania” on purpose when designing the state’s currency in order to thwart counterfeiters
Rog7 TIL that the popular concept of “Humans only use 10% of their brain” is a myth and that there’s nothing to suggest that we don’t use 100% of our brains
w8r7 TIL Roald Dahl (author of ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’)was a real life James Bond who seduced women to gain intelligence during WWII.
9wp47 TIL that Princess Leia never had a lightsaber in Star Wars (even though she was Force sensitive) and when asked on Stephen Colbert’s show about this she said: “You know, it's that whole women - it's a bad thing for women. Even in space, there's a double standard. Even with the Force.”
YwBB TIL A church choir had a practice session starting at 7:25pm one evening in 1950, and by 7:27pm the building exploded. No one was killed as they were all running late.