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TIL Bram Stoker (of Dracula fame) also wrote a collection of children's stories. Critics of the time called them "morbid"

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wLb9P TIL there are no known cases of a moon orbiting another moon, although it is possible in theory. One of the proposed names for these submoons is moonmoon.
neGMd TIL Famed Chess player Bobby Fischer is such an anti-semite that he once journaled "it’s ... time for vigilante killings of Jews – random killings of Jews." He even drafted a letter to Osama Bin Laden sharing his hatred and is a vehement holocaust denier.
mxjWE TIL that Genghis Khan had more than 1,000 affairs during his lifetime, making every 1 in 200 men related to him...
8LJa TIL Alberta, Canada has been virtually rat free for decades. The provincial government has maintained a successful rat extermination program since shortly after World War II.
xV8mo TIL that in the traditional version of The Frog Prince story, the frog was not transformed by a kiss, but by being thrown angrily by the Princess, with all her strength, against a wall.