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TIL As of May 2015, 2.3 Million Americans still subscribed to AOL Dial Up Internet.

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M7N88 TIL DNA scientist James Watson's first interest was bird watching and he entered the University of Chicago at 15 under the gifted youngster program. He initially to become an ornithology curator but then he read Erwin Schrödinger's book: What is Life? The Physical Aspect of the Living Cell
mdBR TIL in South Korea, earning an Olympic Medal means you avoid a mandatory two-year military service.
Lke80 TIL There's an autonomous polity in Greece which is the only political subdivision in the world in which women are prohibited from entering for any reason.
YX5G TIL the coldest temperature in the Universe exists on Earth. Magnets of the Large Hadron Collider are cooled to 1.9 Kelvin, colder than deep space.
nWELB TIL that Apple Macintosh family is named after the McIntosh, which is the national apple of Canada.