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TIL Brothers Grimm didn't write "Red Riding Hood", "Snow White" or "Sleeping Beauty" - they just collected the folk tales

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jNmkR TIL about #OpJustina which was an attack on Boston Children’s Hospital to demand the release of Justina Pelletier— a little girl being held against her will by the state of Massachusetts. She was taken from her parents after the hospital thought her mitochondrial illness was psychological.
e00xk TIL "Paralyzed" by Legendary Stardust Cowboy is one of the few songs to be banned by NASA
4X88R TIL that Queen is the only band in the world where every member has written at least 3 number ones, meaning that the whole band is in the Songwriter’s Hall of Fame
9ypQ TIL: During WW2 Mariya Oktyabrskaya sold all her stuff so she could personally buy a tank and kill Nazis. And she did.
R5wYj TIL Development takes time