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TIL in 1999, Macromedia hired Trey Parker and Matt Stone of South Park fame to create 39 animated shorts to showcase its "Shockwave" player. The result was "Princess". Parker and Stone didn't hear back for weeks after submitting the first two episodes. (Reuploded, links in comments, very NSFW).

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MebnV TIL the first documented use of toilet paper dates back in 589AD in early medieval China. Elsewhere, wealthy people wiped themselves with wool, lace or hemp, while others used their hand when defecating into rivers, using rags, wood shavings, leaves, grass, hay, stones, sand, moss,water, snow, etc.
7rZJZ TIL Ian Fleming was a keen bird watcher. When choosing a name for the hero of Casino Royal he used the name of the author of one of his bird books - James Bond. In 1964, Fleming gave Bond a first edition copy of You Only Live Twice signed, "To the real James Bond, from the thief of his identity".
j6xVN TIL: That the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission had planned to carve out an artificial harbor in Northern Alaska using buried nuclear explosions. The plan (Project Chariot) had a lot of public support and would have been carried out if the Inupiat village of Point Hope hadn't strongly opposed it.
E1Bad TIL the American music genre Bluegrass is named after a specific band, Bill Monroe and the Blue Grass Boys.
694l7 TIL The 2009 song How You Like Me Now by The Heavy has been used in media an unusually large number of times, especially media involving cars: KIA Sorento SUV advertisement, trailer for The Transporter Refueled film and three different racing games, Driver San Francisco, The Crew and Forza Horizon 2