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TIL that when Queen Elizabeth II dies, no comedy programming will air on the BBC for 12 days.

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KOYnG TIL that "Video killed the radio star" was the best selling record in Australia for 27 years.
Y77vP TIL that Pythagoras of The Pythagoras Theorem was a cult leader who claimed he could speak with animals, time travel and had an extreme hatred for Fava Beans.
4XdRb TIL that the man that was not saluting to Hitler in the famous photograph was August Landmesser. After imprisonment, a failed attempt of fleeing to Denmark with his family, his Jewish wife dying in the Holocaust, he was drafted into a penal battalion where he was killed in action.
ZQlR TIL that Mikhail Gorbachev, former premier of the Soviet Union, starred in a Pizza Hut commercial
yVDVe TIL about Preserved Fish, a prominent NYC shipping merchant who sailed to the Pacific in his youth aboard a whaling vessel, became Captain Preserved Fish at 21 and amassed a fortune selling whale oil before his death in 1846.