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TIL that President Clinton did not carry credit cards or much cash and became notorious for borrowing money from Secret Service guards while out shopping.

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16DV TIL - the guy who used to hold up the John 3:16 sign at football games is in prison for life
VMMLk TIL Kevin Spacey's brother is a Rod Stewart impersonator
YDeZ TIL There is a clock in New Zealand that has been running since 1864 despite never having been manually wound.
xVyy1 TIL the axolotl can regenerate its limbs and parts of its brain. Its genome is also 10 times larger than the human genome. Today, scientists study the axolotl as a model of limb regeneration in vertebrates. There are only about 1,000 left in the wild.
loMV7 TIL of Ikkyū Sōjun, a Zen Masters and poet who was known for his eccentric lifestyle. He would visit brothels and drink alcohol, which were considered heretical acts. In folklore, one of his greatest pupils was a prostitute, and he preached all humans were equalm for they're all skeletons underneath