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TIL a blue whale’s heart weighs as much as a cow.

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4X6n5 TIL at the end of the extended edition of Fellowship Of The Ring, every single member of The Lord Of The Rings Official Fan Club that donated to the production of the film is thanked (~15,000 names) adding an additional twenty minutes to the run time.
oBy6o TIL to avoid the show's title leading prospective viewers to assume the show was opera-related, the logo for "The Sopranos" was designed to include a gun in place of the letter "R".
ADJ4n TIL Bizarrely, the US has a Prohibition Party whose mascot is the dromedary and whose chairman is named Phil Collins
pYlrb TIL McDonald's ended sales of nuggets in Japan after someone found a piece of vinyl in a nugget
YwEB TIL when Switzerland added a vote-by-mail option, voter turnout actually decreased in smaller cantons. Sociologists believe that in-person voting created a social pressure in smaller communities to show up at the polls, and this pressure was removed when people could claim that they voted by mail.