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TIL Celine Dion only did one demo take for "My Heart Will Go On", which ended up being the final vocal used.

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W7QVB TIL of socialite Ida Wood: in 1907 she emptied her 1 million dollar bank account(21 million in today's money), declared she was “tired of everything" and shut herself in a hotel room along with her sisters. She stepped out of the room for the first time 24 years later
wor8J TIL Adolf Hitler was a cartoonist for the army newspaper during World War I
Ypgp7 TIL bacon & eggs is considered breakfast food thanks to a single marketing campaign by a bacon company.
wZ8W TIL the original screenplay for Spielberg’s Lincoln biopic was 500 pages long. Rather than cut down the whole thing, he took the 160-page section about the 13th Amendment and made the film about that instead
N9dN TIL that in Ancient Greece, they used pottery shards to wipe their ass after a dump. Sometimes these pottery fragments would be inscribed with the name of an enemy before being used.