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TIL the US Homeownership Rate Is Now the Lowest Since 1989

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GYBy5 TIL when Eminem was releasing Slim Shady EP, he claimed that Insane Clown Posse would be at the release party without asking any member of ICP. When Violent J from ICP asked him about that claim, Em told him “Maybe you will be there; I don’t know. [...] You guys comin’ to my release party, or what?”
MDwa TIL that during the Spanish-American war, a warship sent to capture Guam fired 13 shots at the harbour fort; the Spanish sent an officer out to aplogise for not returning the ‘salute’ as they were out of gunpowder; they hadn’t been informed they were at war.
b9Era TIL: Marceline from "Adventure Time" was played by the same actress that played Joanna, the pre-teen singing heartthrob, in "Love Actually".
NXe9J TIL about Loab, an unexpectedly emergent image from artificial intelligence (AI) research featuring a distressed macabre older woman, the subsequent iterations of which have become increasingly violent and gory.
p89vA TIL that Winona Ryder was born in a town named Winona.