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TIL baseball legend Ted Williams was wingman for astronaut legend John Glenn in the Korean War

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G6lG TIL Samuel James Seymour, the last surviving witness to the Abraham Lincoln assassination, was interviewed about in 1956 on the CBS quiz show “I’ve Got a Secret”.
x6V9o TIL spray cooking oils aren't really zero calories. The label is the result of a rule which allows food companies to label it "zero" if the serving size is small enough. (In this case, a 1/3rd of a second spray is a serving size) - Above this limit, the product has calories like regular oils.
BrYMK TIL about a environmentalist who took a vow of silence for 17 years. He first started by taking a vow to never use motor vehicles after the 1971 San Francisco oil spill. He even went through school and even got a PHD while being silent. He only broke it when he played his banjo and thanked the crowd
jNldn TIL that Michael the gorilla signed that his mother was killed for bushmeat when he was young
0wpyL TIL that cars with yellow, amber turn signals are 28% less likely to be involved in crashes.