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TIL the inventor of the labradoodle deeply regrets his actions.

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v1d78 TIL During the Trial of Joan of Arc, the prosecution, headed by Pierre Cauchon, sent an agent to France to collect dirt on her life in her home village. Cauchon was enraged when the agent "had found nothing concerning Joan that he would not have liked to find about his own sister".
QNBWd TIL about Thomas Grasso, a murderer who was executed in 1995. He requested 24 mussels, 24 clams, a cheeseburger, 6 ribs, 2 milkshakes, a pie, strawberries and a can of SpaghettiOs as a last meal. His last words were "I did not get my SpaghettiOs, I got spaghetti. I want the press to know this."
VMa6m TIL Selena originally couldn't speak Spanish and had to learn to sing her songs phonetically
dDyMj TIL that a man named Robert Anderson is credited for inventing the first Electric car sometime between 1832 and 1839.
L8Bv TIL in 1991 after Pee-Wee Herman was arrested in Florida for masturbating in an adult theater, Bill Cosby defended Herman saying, “Whatever he’s done, this is being blown all out of proportion”.