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TIL Coca Cola randomly printed an English word and French word inside Vitamin Water bottle caps. They had to apologise to a family because their bottle of Vitamin Water said 'YOU RETARD' inside it.

y47J TIL James Gunn has created a “Groot version” of the script for both Guardians of the Galaxy films, which is given to Vin Diesel. It includes dialogue for Groot which clarifies what he is attempting to get across each time he says his catchphrase
BrROD TIL the lazy cops-donuts stereotype was the exact opposite of its origin: cops used to frequent donut shops in the past because they need to have work done and donut shops were the only ones that are open really early in the morning (to prepare for the breakfast rush).
VxpZ TIL In the late 1980s, young punk rockers in Cuba, known as “los frikis,” were so fed-up with the stifling life of the communist regime that they chose to inject themselves with the AIDS virus so they could live in a sanitarium and be free from constant police-state harassment.
VBX1D TIL in a cave near Nazareth, archeologists found a skeleton of a 13 year old boy with with deer horns that had been placed on his chest. The cave was dated to be around 92,000 years old.
e00pn TIL in 1930, Ellen Church (a licensed pilot herself) persuaded airlines to change their minds about hiring females by challenging them: “Don’t you think that it would be good psychology to have women up in the air? How is a man going to say he is afraid to fly when a woman is working on the plane?”.