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TIL in Deadpool 2, on Deadpool's map there’s a drawing of Wolverine marked “Prisoner 24601,” the same prisoner number for Jean Valjean in Les Miserables, a character also played by Hugh Jackman

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40LX TIL A man sued Pepsico after the company refused to redeem his 7,000,000 Pepsi Points for a AV-8 Harrier II jump jet as advertised in their commercial.
BrVnd TIL Some believe that if children wear glasses when they are young, they won’t need them later. Others think wearing glasses as a child makes one dependent on them later. Neither is true. Children need glasses because they are genetically nearsighted, farsighted, or astigmatic
MeZo8 TIL that the Colombian town of López de Micay is the wettest place in the world, with an average of 315 rainy days a year (the least rainy month is February, with 23 rainy days), and an average of 16000 mm of rainfall annually
0wAdL TIL A hitchhiking robot that relied on the kindness of strangers to travel the world was found with its head and arms ripped off, just two weeks into its first American tour.
D1vZg TIL Lake Laogai in Avatar: The Last Airbender was based on "Laogai", a prison system in China that attempted to reform people with labor