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TIL in 2010 Sandra Bullock won a Razzie for Worst Actress and an Oscar for Best Actress within 24 hours of each other.

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PY5oL TIL that Robert Smith (singer/guitarist of The Cure) played the piano as a child, but his younger sister Janet was a piano prodigy so he switched to the guitar because "she couldn't get her fingers around the neck." Janet later married Cure guitarist Porl Thompson and played on Cure side projects.
OEE7 TIL Mohammed V, monarch of Morocco, and Vichy French colonial subject was ordered to produce a list of Jewish subjects, he responded: “There are no Jews in Morocco. There are only Moroccans”“
dgmK TIL that some black bears are born white and are called Spirit Bears. They are not albino or polar bears.
40ww TIL 60% of Earth’s lakes are in Canada.
mx1lP TIL Vatican City has only one restaurant and Vatican cuisine is very similar to Italian. A famous dish is "Eggplant with Parmesan of the Swiss Guards" which is a mixture containing eggplant, parmesan and spice