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TIL A packet of cigarettes in Australia will cost $40 by 2020

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kdR7 TIL Peter Jackson’s overuse of green screen technology in The Hobbit caused Sir Ian Mckellen to break down into tears on the set.
Vxr8 TIL there is a statistically significant increase in fatal car accidents in the days after daylight savings time, presumably due to disruption in sleep patterns.
yVJnM TIL 'Happy Birthday' by Stevie Wonder was written in honour of MLK Jr, and was used with success to campaign for the establishment of January 15th, King's birthday, as a national holiday.
epWQb TIL when you sing "Home, home on the range. Where the deer and the antelope play," there are no antelope in the USA.
Zlkp TIL Crayola’s most senior crayon moulder who, after 37 years of service and approximately 1.4 billion crayons produced, revealed he was colorblind