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TIL Justin Bieber didn't have a Number 1 hit till 'What Do You Mean' in 2015 (half a decade after Baby and all the "Belieb" stuff, years after the controversies, and a few months after the Comedy Central Roast)

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EgyL7 TIL When Eli Wallach arrived in Madrid, Spain, all of the hotels were full. Clint Eastwood invited him to sleep over at a friend's house, and they shared the same bed. Wallach's wife Anne Jackson told him he could boast that he was the only man to sleep with Clint Eastwood.
W70bd TIL that tradition dictates that curved croissants are made with margarine while straight croissants are made with butter
m1WPO TIL that in its first appearance at the Olympics, Suriname was represented by a single athlete, a runner who missed his event for arriving late to the heat after being given wrong information about the time.
0wpov TIL Boris Yeltsin’s first trip to a Texas grocery store in 1988 shattered his belief in communism. He told his fellow Russians in his entourage that if their people, who often must wait in line for most goods, saw the U.S. supermarkets, "there would be a revolution."
awRMb TIL a man sued PepsiCo, alleging he found a mouse in his Mountain Dew can. PepsiCo's defense won by proving that a mouse would dissolve inside the soda in the days after being put in the can.