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TIL Western Michigan University Thomas Cooley law school has such low standards that at least a quarter of their students enrolled in 2018 had an LSAT test score among the USA's bottom 12%.

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0wZ9A TIL in EVE Online, a space themed MMORPG, that the "Bloodbath of B-R5RB" was a player vs player event that had over 7500 players participating and resulted in the loss of around $330,000 USD worth of in-game content, making it the largest PvP event in any game.
LQpad TIL when Mike Meaney began his record attempt at being buried alive he neglected to tell his wife about his plan. She found out from listening to the radio. He staged workouts in a pub while in an oversized coffin, ate a diet of steak and cigarettes, and then spent 61 days buried alive
6DNZ TIL in 2013 PayPal accidentally credited $92 quadrillion to a Pennsylvania man.
n1Er TIL that cheap yo-yos can spin approximately 10-20 seconds, with a record of nearly 4 minutes, while professional ball bearing yo-yos can spin for 1-4 minutes, with a record of just over 21 minutes.
KOQ8Q TIL: The speed of light isn't there for light, it's there because of causality. If something moved faster causality would break and observers would see effect before cause.