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TIL new facial-recognition analysis appears to prove that Frank Morris and the Anglin brothers were, in fact, successful in their escape from Alcatraz.

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W7QVB TIL of socialite Ida Wood: in 1907 she emptied her 1 million dollar bank account(21 million in today's money), declared she was “tired of everything" and shut herself in a hotel room along with her sisters. She stepped out of the room for the first time 24 years later
5Vg58 TIL in WW2 the British emplyed Operation Window which used a highly effective tactic to jam German radar - dropping plane loads of small pieces of aluminum and zinc foil
wmRY TIL four of the main characters in Disney’s Frozen reflect the author on which the original story is based. Hans Christian Anderson = Hans, Kristoff, Anna, Sven.
edWE TIL there was a record called “Three Minutes of Silence” which was placed in juke boxes. Customers would pay for relief from the music.
PJMZ TIL despite Freddie Mercury’s multiple-octave range, he claimed to have no formal vocal training.