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TIL the Walt Disney company owned an island near Orlando that opened a theme park in 1974 called Treasure Island. The park was later renamed Discovery Island and mysteriously closed in 1999 without any explanation given.

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Z8xR4 TIL of Brian Spencer, a former NHL hockey player who's father, upon hearing his son was starting in his first game, held a Canadian TV station hostage and forced them to broadcast it, before being shot and killed. After his career, Brian too was shot & killed during a robbery after buying crack.
j6kJR TIL: That the movie 'The Terminal' was partially inspired by the true story of Mehran Karimi Nasseri, who lived in Terminal 1 at Charles de Gaulle Airport for 18 years. Nasseri would spend his days writing his journal, listening to the radio, smoking his gold pipe or eating meals at McDonald's.
vRVr TIL That Hartlepool F.C. have a monkey as their mascot after the town supposedly mistook one for a french spy and hung it
grZr4 TIL in 1862 atmospheric rivers created a 40-day mega-storm in California that utterly destroyed a third of the state. Research shows that such a storm happens every 200 years.
nepEo TIL although quite rare, several cases of modern piracy have occurred on Falcon Lake on the Texas/Mexico border, mostly targeting boaters who venture close to the shore on the Mexico side. The violent Los Zetas cartel is largely responsible.