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TIL R. Lee Ermey was the only person ever allowed to improvise dialogue in a Kubrick film.

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6EPbY TIL so many significant events in German history have happened on November 9 that historians have called the date 'The Day of Fate'. Events which have occurred on this date include Kristallnacht & the fall of the Berlin Wall.
v5wj TIL The doctor who claimed that there was a link between vaccines and autism lost his medical license for fraudulent data produced from a study.
a805Z TIL, a member of the jury that convicted drug kingpin el chapo, gave an interview in which he accused himself and other jurors of misconduct. He also claimed that many jurors were sad and wept after sentencing el chapo to life in solitary. He said, however, that there was no doubt about his guilt.
G7OJ TIL 50% of giraffes are bisexual
XYdj TIL that Linda Hazzard, a woman who was responsible for over 40 patients deaths due to fasting, died whilst attempting to prove her methods worked.