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TIL There’s a biker gang who sit in courtrooms to help sexually abused kids feel relaxed when giving evidence.

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8emeK TIL the mirrors on the James Webb Space Telescope are so smooth that if you stretched out the mirror to the size of the U.S., the largest bump would be no more than 2 inches
opvE TIL a Wikipedia admin once deleted the main page. This resulted in a Wikipedia guidance essay, “Don’t delete the main page.”
M7KD0 TIL about psychologist George M. Stratton who invented the upside down goggles and used it to prove that human brain can adapt to the inverted vision. He wore them for 7 days and felt weird until the last day that he adapted until he took them off and felt strange again for several hours.
wLVQM On Sunday, snow fell in one of the most unlikely places on Earth. Ain Sefra, an Algerian town in the Sahara Desert, got a couple inches of the white stuff.
E1Box TIL that during a flight to America the 'Hindenburg' hovered over a random English town and dropped a bouquet of flowers, then ascended and continued its journey. A note attached to the bouquet read: please deposit these flowers and cross on the grave of my dear brother, POW [in the local cemetery]"