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TIL Jeremy Bentham's dressed skeleton is on display in the UCL Student Union. Bentham donated his body to science, but requested that after dissection, they preserve and dress his body in his own clothes, and bring him to meetings and social events. He died in 1832 and was moved to UCL in 1850.

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LABV TIL of Japan’s Unit 731, which committed some of the most terrible war crimes in World War II, including human vivisections, innoculation of diseases, and exposure to radiation and poison gas to thousands of innocent Chinese and Russians. These crimes are still denied by the Japanese people today.
Axox TIL after describing female journalists as “buck-and-a-half hookers”, Frank Sinatra was under siege for 3 days in a Sydney hotel and stranded because airport union staff refused him service, declaring “If you don’t apologise, you won’t be allowed to leave Australia unless you can walk on water.”
R7B47 TIL the flag of Liberia is the only current flag in the world that was modeled after and resembles the American flag
7vPM TIL the Christmas tree in London’s Trafalgar Square had been given by the country of Norway every year since 1947. It is a token of appreciation for the friendship of the British people during World War II.
woLwo TIL When F. Scott Fitzgerald was dying of alcoholism he was largely forgotten by the public and destitute. He would get drunk and accost strangers on the street and say "I'm F. Scott Fitzgerald. You've read my books. You've read The Great Gatsby, haven't you? Remember?"