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TIL that the braille on all drive-thru atms is for visually impaired people to use when riding as a rear passenger in a vehicle. Braille on atms is federally mandated, and helps maintain financial privacy by allowing blind individuals to bank without having to disclose their pin to a driver.

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4Grb TIL David Bowie could barely perform his broadway show in NY, The Elephant Man, the day after John Lennon was shot because there were three empty seats in the front row. Two belonged to John and Yoko. The third was Mark David Chapman’s, Lennon’s killer. Bowie was suppose to be next on his list.
5YNBp TIL the waterbed was invented by Scottish physician Neil Arnott in 1833 to “prevent bedsores in invalids”
aLkb TIL Conker’s Bad Fur Day, N64 game famous for adult themes storyline, actually came after an innocent and child-appropriate game starring Conker released a year before.
4k0oR TIL the name "Chilean seabass" was invented by a fish wholesaler named Lee Lantz in 1977. He was looking for a name to make the Patagonian toothfish attractive to the American market. In 1994, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration accepted "Chilean seabass" as an "alternative market name" for it.
gOkD TIL the first issue of Life magazine, entitled “Life Begins,” featured the birth of a baby named George Story. A month after LIFE announced its closure in 2000, Story died of heart failure, and Life’s final issue was entitled “A Life Ends.”