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TIL Dobby exists in the form of Elf Cats

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MeEPV TIL A woman was elected to Congress before women’s suffrage. American women were given the right to vote in 1920, but Jeanette Rankin became the first woman in the U.S. federal office in 1916.
woPME TIL Eddie Van Halen agreed to play the Guitar Solo for Michael Jackson's Beat It under 2 conditions. That he not get credit and that he wouldn't tell his band.
e0QwD TIL of the existance of a group called "The Foundation to Decrease Worldsuck" who exists solely for the purpose of raising funds to be donated to other non-profit organizations.
woKYJ TIL Gross Tonnage is Measure of a Ship’s Internal Space, Not its Weight.
ep7pk TIL one of the nicknames of the Edmund Fitzgerald was 'the Titanic of the Great Lakes'. The ship famously sank in a November storm on Lake Superior. All of her 29 crew were lost.