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TIL Tony Hawk’s son is married to Kurt Cobain’s daughter

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wLDKW TIL that Richard Vallières stole more than $18.7 million worth of maple syrup from a facility in Quebec between 2011-2012, making it the largest heist in Canadian history.
AGmn TIL Freddy Rumsen from Mad Men is Bill Murray’s little brother
VMjdp TIL about The Sarco, an assisted suicide machine invented by Philip Nitschke, it fills up with liquid nitrogen to bring the oxygen level down to about 5 percent. Within one minute the user passes out, and a few minutes later, death comes.
R7QK7 TIL that Stalin killed way more people than Hitler by creating a famine to promote his forced collectivization of agriculture and five-year plan.
wLgvM TIL that a British midshipman, Wenman Wykeham-Musgrave, managed to survive the torpedoing and sinking of three different warships -- within the space of about an hour