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TIL that Pluto was named by an 11 year old girl named Venetia Burney Phair

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D1n5Y TIL Einstein married his first cousin, Elsa Löwenthal. (Not only were their mothers sisters, but their fathers were cousins too, making the married couple second cousins as well.) The relationship began while Einstein was still married to his first wife, physicist Mileva Marić.
lo7Yr TIL Darrell from Storage Wars once found a murdered corpse in one of his units
wLedM TIL Chicagoan Corey Taylor was so frustrated with his Verizon cellphone service that he faked his own death to get out of his contract without paying $175.
Y7pQB TIL Odin and Loki would make fun of each other by bringing up their sex lives. Odin would make fun of Loki for enjoying the form of a mare in order to produce great horses, and Loki made fun of Odin for enjoying seið magic, which often involved being the passive receiver of sexual penetration.
oRwLA TIL Despite its reputation as the most staunchly Republican state, the Democratic Candidate William Jennings Bryan won the state of Utah by a margin of 65.43% in the state's first-ever presidential election in 1896, the strongest performance by a presidential candidate in Utah.