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TIL The United States is the most armed nation with 88.8 guns per 100 people.

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XL58 TIL that Sean Connery turned down the Gandalf role in Lord of the Rings, saying “I read the book. I read the script. I saw the movie. I still don’t understand it.”
R7ME1 TIL of Euthyphro dilemma, found in Plato's dialogue Euthyphro, in which Socrates asks Euthyphro question: "Is what is morally good commanded by God because it is morally good, or is it morally good because it is commanded by God?"
booa TIL PeTA boycotted Liam Neeson’s movie because it depicted gray wolves in a negative light
ADDR7 TIL there is a militant Islamic separatist group in the Philippines that goes by the name MILF
0d17y TIL that on April 28, 1988, the Boeing 737-297 serving the flight between Hilo and Honolulu in Hawaii suffered explosive decompression in flight, caused by part of the fuselage breaking, but managed to land at Kahului airport on Maui. A stewardess was swept away by the decompression, presumed dead.