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TIL in 2011, a 16 year old teenager repelled down into a San Francisco dealership and stole Guy Fieri’s Lamborghini

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69NJZ TIL that The Beach Boys didn't actually use the theremin (the instrument that makes the oooeeeoooo sound) in Good Vibrations, due to it being notoriously difficult to play. Instead they used a simplified version
pYZX8 TIL: When serving in the Illinois Militia, Abraham Lincoln went from Capitan to Private in one move.
wod4J TIL the Constellation Aquila - which represents the bird that carries Zeus' thunderbolts - has had 10 Novas in the 100 years between 1899 and 1999
awm4o TIL that John Lennon wrote I am the Walrus just to mess with people trying to find meaning in his songs
VB5m0 TIL The Pyrenean ibex remains the only animal to have ever been brought back from extinction and also the only one to go extinct twice