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TIL in 1951 in a Disney comic titled ‘Mickey Mouse and the Medicine Man’ Mickey and Goofy get high and move to Africa to become drug dealers

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ADjA7 TIL that in 2018, Domino's Pizza began their 'Paving for Pizza' campaign; $5000 was given to 20 public bodies to fund road repairs to ensure that pizzas were not spoiled during delivery. Each pothole would be sprayed with the Domino's logo and the message 'Oh yes we did'
KYN99 TIL Of the 45 persons who have served as President of the United States, at least half have displayed proficiency in speaking or writing a language other than English. Of these, only one, Martin Van Buren, learned English as his second language; his first language was Dutch.
KBnQ TIL EINSTEIN once declared that his second greatest idea after the theory of relativity was to add an egg while cooking soup in order to produce a soft-boiled egg without having an extra pot to wash.
9w7x6 TIL that Sigmund Freud was a Cocaine Addict, and he personally prescribed it to his wife and friends
OogO7 TIL there is an island in Ethiopia where Christian Ethiopians claim to have kept the Ark of Covenant for thousands of years. It is watched over by a single man with no name known as the "Guardian" and no woman are allowed on the island for fear of "stirring the passions" of the virgins on the island