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TIL actor Joe Pesci started as a singer and guitar player and played in the same band as Jimi Hendrix

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R7ep1 TIL credit cards were first "used" over 5000 years ago on clay tablets.
awGko TIL that James Franco launched a college course entitled "Master Class: Editing James Franco...with James Franco," in which student editors are to compile a 30 minute documentary on Franco, using behind the scenes footage of Franco supplied by Franco, to "create a cinematic image of James Franco."
yQNjv TIL that in 2004, scientists engineered goats whose milk could save more than 500,000 kids who die each year from diarrheal diseases — that's more than the number of deaths from AIDS, malaria, and measles combined — but the government has left it languishing in regulatory limbo.
oByK7 TIL there is a type of deep-sea anglerfish in which the larger female absorbs the males to mate
JYE1 TIL that the proper way to use a bobby pin is with the ridges facing down - flat side up.