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TIL that Apple made a console back in 1996 called the "Pippin" (a play on words imo - pippin is a type of apple) in co-operation with Bandai. Needless to say, only 42,000 were ever sold, mostly due to its price of $599, and was discontinued after only 1 year when good ol' Steve Jobs returned.

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b6nA4 TIL that in Wuppertal, Germany in 1950, the circus elephant Tuffi broke through a window of a moving overhead railway and fell 12 metres down in a river, while on promotion tour for a circus. Luckily she survived with minor injuries.
m1mkP TIL the prank known in the US as "ding dong ditch" is known in England as "knock down ginger"
x6m5g TIL that a minor political party in the People's Republic of China, Triads and Chinese Lion Dancing tropes are all tied to Tiandihui, a chinese secret society that often gets called 'Chinese Masons' in western countries even though they are unrelated.
ybae TIL in 1966 Harper Lee made a donation to the beadle bumble fund after “To kill a mockingbird” was banned by a school board in Hanover, Virginia who believed the book to be immoral. Harper Lee hoped that the donation would be used to educate the school board as she believed them to be illiterate
6Eapw TIL in the 1950s, a researcher was designing army airplane seats for an 'average' pilot based on measurements from 1000s of airmen, only to discover this theoretical 'average' he'd derived wouldn't fit any of them. This realization led to adjustable seats, foot pedals, helmet straps and flight suits