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TIL Oxford University is older than the Aztec Empire

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GYE7j TIL in 2005 physicists at MIT created a new form of matter, a gas of atoms that shows high-temperature superfluidity.
x6O1w TIL the Association of German National Jews supported Hitler, believing his rhetoric was just to "stir up the masses"
nWPer TIL a woman in Australia would leave her house at night while sleepwalking and have sex with strangers. She was completely unaware of it until her partner became suspicious and found her engaged in the act. She was eventually diagnosed with 'sleep sex' and successfully treated with psychotherapy.
GYPr7 TIL: That the children of Princess Anne, the daughter of Queen Elizabeth II, carry no Royal Titles. They are still in the Royal line of succession but have no peerage titles because thier father was common born and refused a title upon marriage into the Royal Family.
NjgN TIL all new employees and recently-promoted executives at the Japanese company Dentsu have to climb Mount Fuji. This has happened every July since 1925.