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TIL William Rockefeller, John D. Rockefeller's father and patriarch of the incredibly wealthy family, was a con man and snake oil salesman, and intentionally lent money to impoverished farmers to take their land

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Br4Pe TIL that after Brazil's defeat in FIFA World Cup Final 1998, a parliamentary hearing into Nike's role in the national squad saw Brazilian senators ask football players questions such as "Whose role was it to mark Zidane"?
GYQE5 TIL about John Scott, a pro hockey player who got voted by the people (as a joke) to be the captain of the All Star team. The NHL didn't want him to play, so he got sent to the Minor Leagues. There wasn't a rule against a minor leaguer playing in it though, so he played, scored twice and won MVP.
j6PBj TIL that the first time the Albanian language was mentioned in History was a witness of a crime reporting he had heard someone yelling in Albanian.
OG5r4 TIL that mathematician John von Neumann had an unusual ability to solve new problems. When presented with a problem in programming on which there had been no published literature, he said "Oh, that!", then gave a lecture of over an hour explaining how to solve it using a hitherto unconceived theory
6EXP8 TIL that in Switzerland it's illegal to have just one guinea pig because they get too lonely and need a friend.