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TIL about a baseball team that literally played for their lives. An integrated team of death-row inmates was assembled, called The Penitentiary All Stars, played against other local teams in Wyoming, and earned the prison officials money from gambling. Winning earned the team stays of execution.

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0wXjR TIL In 2007, Keira Knightley was awarded £3,000 ($6,000) in damages from a lawsuit against Daily Mail for publishing an article about her having anorexia nervosa and added another £3,000 to this amount to donate to Beat, a charity for those who suffer mental illness and eating disorders.
94eG TIL Cicada 3301 is an anonymous organization that on three occasions has posted a set of complex puzzles to recruit capable cryptanalysts from the public. It has been called “the most elaborate and mysterious puzzle of the internet age”.
neVDW TIL the Beatles started a company called Apple Corps in 1968, which included Apple Electronics, Apple Films and Apple Music. In 1978 they sued and won against Apple Computer (now Apple Inc) for trademark infringement.
GYbD7 TIL in 1974, Crips leader Stanley “Tookie” “Williams encountered a body builder named Arnold Schwarzenegger who complimented Williams’ muscular physique. Decades later, Arnold Schwarzenegger would deny Williams a clemency decision that would’ve saved him from a state-administered lethal injection.
ax10 TIL Tiger Woods, despite being worth $500 million dollars, once pulled a “mulligan” by taking back a $5 tip to a waitress after realizing he had tipped her earlier in the day. By the way, he was playing a $10,000 hand of blackjack at the time.