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TIL the CEO of HSBC in Taiwan walked his lesbian employee down the aisle in 2017 after her parents refused to go to the wedding

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MeOO7 TIL - Classic Yellow Mustard is one of (If not) the healthiest condiment in the world.
yQZ8w TIL in 1991, an Australian singer pretended to have been kidnapped in order to boost her flagging career. She’d been missing for two days when she was found tied up in a road, claiming that she had been abducted by a fan and assaulted. Two weeks later she admitted that she’d made it all up.
P9EV Til there exists an infamous Star Wars trading card of C-3PO in which it appears the droid is sporting a ginormous erection, and nobody is quite sure how it happened.
wn5o TIL a school headmaster in Britain had to resign after he announced the retirement of a teacher using acrostic writing, where the first letters of each word spell out a hidden message. His statement began “We all now know every really great teacher has to finish one day…”, spelling out ‘wanker’.
D1oEj TIL in the 50-plus year history of the Japanese bullet train system, carrying over 5.3 billion passengers, there has been not a single passenger fatality or injury due to train accidents.