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TIL that the only guests that attended the funeral of Spanish serial killer José Antonio Rodríguez Vega (who was killed after being stabbed 113 times by fellow inmates) were the gravediggers hired to bury him

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bx4Q TIL up to 40% of the United States food supply goes uneaten
VBnlk TIL Egypt isn't the country with the most Pyramids in the world. It's Sudan with 220 Pyramids(almost twice of Egypt which is ~118)
D1R8r Today I learned about Richard Overton, who in 1991 sued Anheuser-Busch (a liquor producer) for $10,000 because he wasn't getting more attractive women to like him after drinking beer, as he was shown in one of their ads.
KOAZR TIL Bobby Fischer who is considered the greatest chess champion of all time lived the last 16 years of his life as a fugitive after the U.S government put a warrant out for his arrest for violating a trade embargo against Yugoslavia by participating in a chess match there.
Wk7Ao TIL Thomas Jefferson believed Jesus's teachings were "the most sublime and benevolent code of morals which has ever been offered to man," but that they had been appropriated by his followers, resulting in a Bible that contained both "diamonds of wisdom" and the "dung" of ancient political agendas.