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TIL that there is a museum in Iceland devoted to penises. A 95-year-old man donated his penis to it after his death.

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0d14N TIL when President McKinley was asked by his personal secretary to cancel his planned visit to the Temple of Music for safety reasons, McKinley asked his secretary why anyone would want to hurt him. McKinley would later get shot at the Temple of Music.
9YrGG TIL that in 1986 a man named John R. MacDougall jammed HBO on the East Coast for almost 5 minutes, affecting 8 million people, all to protest their rates for satellite dish owners
Pd8Z TIL that the FBI uses “scores” of disguised, low-flying surveillance planes in most major cities
gMAy7 TIL that there is a fungal genus "Phallus" consisting entirely of penis-shaped mushrooms, commonly known as "stinkhorns."
wokw1 TIL Jello is made used farm animals.