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TIL that in the original Grimms' Rumpelstiltskin (1812), when the imp's name was revealed, he fled in surrender, never to be seen again. In 1857, the Grimms rewrote a new, more brutal ending, wherein the Imp, in defeat, plants one foot in the ground, grabs the other, and tears his own body in half.

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rNOey TIL Google made an AI that converts text into music
69maQ TIL about Wing Commander Clive Beadon, British dowser, diplomat, and officer in the Royal Air Force. During WW2 his aircraft was hit by anti-aircraft guns over Thailand. He managed to fly the burning aircraft over 500 miles back to an airbase in India using flasks of tea to keep the flames at bay.
vP6Y4 TIL the Temple of the Tooth of Kandy hosts a relic of the Buddha. The temple has sustained damage from two bombings, first in 1989 by a Sri Lankan militant organization who was intent on capturing the relic, and again in 1998 by a different Sri Lankan militant organization
akk0 TIL an early version of Picasso’s The Weeping Woman was stolen from the National Gallery of Victoria with the ransom demand being an increase in funding to the arts. The painting was later found undamaged in a locker at a Melbourne train station and the theft remains unsolved today.
GYQaN TIL: There was a case of British conjoined twins. If not separated, they’d both die in months. If separation was successful, the healthier twin would survive but the surgery would kill the other. The parents refused consent, but a court overruled them, the surgery killed one twin to save the other.