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TIL Mauritania and Jamaica are the only national flags to not contain any of the three most common flag colours: red, white, or blue

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WVDN TIL Lou Pearlman, who signed N'Sync, The Backstreet Boys, and other boy bands in the 90’s would choose one boy from each band to molest as a condition of signing them. A former employee is quoted as saying “There was one guy in every band — one sacrifice … who takes it for Lou.”
DQvJr TIL after suffering a brutal attack in 2020, Wanda Palmer woke up from a two-year coma in 2022 and identified her brother, Daniel, as the one who attacked and nearly killed her. He was charged with attempted murder, but died in a hospital after being in jail for five days.
OoNoe TIL the fictional characters Patrick Bateman (American Psycho) and Sherman McCoy (The Bonfire of the Vanities) are both employees of the same fictional company - investment firm Pierce and Pierce.
xXXo TIL that in 1976, doctors in Los Angeles went on strike, and the mortality rate dropped 18%.
vdrr TIL Charlize Theron has an American accent because she only spoke Afrikaans at home and “learned to speak English properly in the US”.