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TiL Jerry Sadowitz had a 1987 album withdrawn from circulation after he refered to Jimmy Savile as a paedophile

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o9nE TIL easily more than 10% of women cheat on their spouses (as confirmed irrefutably by a study of baby blood types differing from father’s [pg72 The Science of Adultery])
9Y79r TIL the upper atmosphere of Saturn’s (and other gas giants presumably) poles are heated by the massive Auroras happening there!
nbRb TIL in 1984 Rick Gibson was given 2 human 10-week-old fetuses which had been dehydrated for 20 years. Gibson rehydrated then freeze-dried them and attached them as earrings to a female mannequin head. The sculpture was titled Human Earrings. As a result, Gibson was expelled from Goldsmiths College.
yQmxV TIL about Drayton Daugherty, a doctor who cured a dying man by pretending to undo a voodoo hex in a last ditch effort after modern medicine didn't work. The man believed he was cured and lived for ten more years.
epyak TIL Tom Hanks starred in a 1981 film called "Mazes and Monsters" that was based on a false account of a college student losing his grasp of reality from playing Dungeons and Dragons.