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TIL mixing your drinks with diet soda gets you drunk 18% faster than regular soda.

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gMagW TIL “Happy Birthday” is now in the Public Domain after Time Warner was sued in 2016
R5Nk1 TIL about the Readymix logo geoglyph, a 3.2 km × 1.6 km (2.0 mi × 0.99 mi) logo carved into the ground in outback Australia in 1965. For a lone time of it was the largest such signage of its kind in the world.
yQBOM TIL that the emojis in some Twitter hashtags are called “Hashflags”, and it can cost $1 Million and up for brands and advertisers to buy one.
d8WK TIL that when banana slugs mate, sometimes they get stuck, so, to separate, they take turns gnawing off the penis.
4nBX TIL Mike Myers and Dana Carvey did not speak for over a decade because Myers stole the character Dr. Evil from Carvey