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TIL that the theme songs for Family Matters, Full House, and Step by Step were all sung by the same guy - Jesse Frederick. He also wrote the theme for Perfect Strangers.

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b9OrQ TIL that in 1996 a stray cat who'd given birth to a litter in an abandoned Brooklyn garage returned to the structure five times after a fire broke out to save her kittens, despite her eyes blistered shut and her paw pads burned from the flames. (Mama and babies all survived.)
R5ora TIL that when the Americans liberated Kiska Island from the Japanese during WWII Admiral King told the Secretary of the Navy that Japanese dogs could brew coffee
OGQB7 TIL 70% of Saudi Arabias electrical consumption is used exclusively for air conditioning
yjaw TIL Singapore has the world’s highest percentage of millionaires, with one out of every six households having at least $1,000,000 US dollars in disposable wealth.
y7Ne TIL that on this day 100 years ago, Jack LaLane was born. When he opened his first health club, doctors advised their patients to stay away and warned their patients that “LaLanne was an exercise ‘nut,’ whose programs would make them "muscle-bound” and cause severe medical problems.