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TIL in 2010, a Canadian man rescued a newborn baby from a dumpster, only to find out he was the father.

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78rdM TIL Public DNA records can be used to find distant relatives of criminals, from which investigators can build a family tree and catch said criminals
pYEXN TIL that there was a Portuguese man raised in South Africa called Fernando Pessoa who had around 70 different personalities.
960Q TIL In North Korea’s version of basketball, a dunk counts as three, you get an extra point on a three pointer that doesn’t touch the rim, eight if you score in the last three seconds, and -1 for a missed free throw
8xmX TIL Paris, under Napoleon, purchased the source of the Seine so that the river, technically speaking, starts in Paris.
Dj8j TIL of the Dyatlov Pass Incident. The mysterious unsolved death of 9 hikers who tore through their tents naked in sub-0 temperatures. 7 died of hypothermia, one of a fractured skull, one female team member had her tongue and eyes missing. Offical cause of death: “unknown compelling force”