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TIL Cool Whip contains the emulsifier Polysorbate 60, a major ingredient in many sexual lubricants

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78NZP TIL that Richard Harding was hanged in 1805 for forging the tax stamp on the Ace of Spades. At the time, British playing cards were taxed, and this card bore an emblem proving duty paid. Forging it was a capital crime, helping link the Ace of Spades with death.
ZpyX4 TIL Lady Gaga secretly swapped in "Fuck her face" for "Poker Face" during the chorus of the song with the same name. She later admitted that only Kiss FM in Los Angeles noticed the change and the song was played with the NSFW lyrics across the globe.
9gWB TIL: Typographic Rivers are the gaps in typesetting, which appear to run through a paragraph of text, due to a coincidental alignment of spaces.
0dE9p TIL Ike Turner’s Rocket 88 is the first rock n roll song but considered obscure in history. The song's significance on white teenagers in 1951 was not large but it was a huge record on the black charts
LQMw0 TIL that tulips can grow after being cut, up to one inch.