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TIL almost all ABBA songs were written exclusively by Björn and Benny and their manager Stig, with only one being credited to Agnetha or Frida.

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X0E7k TIL Daniel Lambert (1770- 1809), the heaviest authenticated person in history at that time, once fought a bear on the streets of Leicester and only gave up horseback hunting when his weight exceeded 560 pounds
pWbp TIL the flag of Mozambique has an AK-47 on it
894G TIL artist Peter von Tiesenhausen made the top 6 inches of his 800 acre farm a copyrighted work of art to keep oil pipelines out. It costs oil companies $500/h to talk to him
J1JDk TIL that in 1691, a Swedish farmhand was executed for having sexual intercourse with a mountain-nymph
wokp1 TIL Garry Kasparov helped design a chess-playing computer program. Kasparov also makes an appearance as the last computer profile which has to be defeated in order to win the "Kasparov Chess Club"