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TIL that US prison population grew 380% in 30 years despite a steep decrease in crime rate. At 1.5mil, it’s the world’s largest, and 30% of it is drug crimes.

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Y7J1x TIL: That autographs of The Beatles were once left in cupboard for decades. The Beatles signed their monikers on a scrap of paper at a small gig in Shropshire on 19 January 1963. The Shropshire gig came just over a week after the Fab Four released their first big hit, the single Please Please Me.
D1rGJ TIL about Michele Mouton, a former French rally driver. After finishing runner-up in the 1982 WRC, she started competing in the infamous and savage Group B, which was later banned after a string of deaths. Mouton retired as a result, and she remains the last woman to compete in top-level rallying.
WkGro TIL That the world's largest largemouth bass ever caught is not actually the current world record because the fisherman "foul hooked" the bass (caught it by hooking it accidentally).
DMQg TIL of the Wolf of Gysinge, a wolf that was held in captivity in Sweden in the early 1800’s. It later managed to escape and, within a three-month period, attacked 31 people (mostly children) and killed 12 with most of the deceased being partially consumed by the wolf.
6MQY TIL the Soviet Union and the United States were originally in talks to go to the moon together during the Cold War. Nikita Khruschev was poised to accept the plan but then President Kennedy was assassinated. The Soviets did not trust Vice President Johnson, so Khruschev rejected the plan.