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TIL a Russian immigrant to NY in the 1920s, Lillian Alling was so homesick that she resolved to walk home to Siberia. She walked an estimated 5000 miles in 3 years, serving a few months in jail for vagrancy in Canada, and was last sighted on the banks of the Bering Strait.

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vYk4 TIL the “french” in french fries actually describes the way the spuds are sliced, not their country of origin.
gMa8W TIL in 2017 raccoons and chimps were put through the Aesop's Fable test, to see if they could learn to displace water to get food from a container. Many succeeded: the raccoons used their hands to manipulate the container in creative ways, and one chimp simply peed into the container (which worked).
WOkL TIL that the top Tupperware salesperson in America is a 6 foot 5 inch man named Robert Suchan. He makes $250,000 year dressing up in drag as a character called “Aunt Barbara” based on his own aunt.
y9Wp TIL that Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin and his wife Terri didn’t wear wedding rings because they feared it may pose a risk for themselves or the animals they worked with
YpBo7 TIL Ramon Artagaveytia was one of the 65 passengers who survived the sinking of the ship America in 1871. The mental trauma gave him nightmares for the rest of his life and kept him off of ships until April 10, 1912, when he decided to visit the US and boarded the Titanic. His body was never found.