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TIL a furniture store owner was honored for giving an undercover cop a job working alongside a murder suspect for 5 months. The officer befriended the suspect and got him to confess to killing his wife. The killer was tried and convicted.

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475 TIL there is a rabbit that can grow to the size of a dog
Eg9Rp TIL Mr. Brightside by The Killers never left U.K. charts. In fact, it was among the top 50 in 2017
lorBA TIL Adam Mattocks is the only aviator to bail out of a B-52 cockpit without an ejector seat and survive. The B-52, carrying two 3.8-megaton H-bombs, crashed in North Carolina. Upon reaching an Air Force base to explain his story, Mattocks, an African-American, was arrested for stealing a parachute.
W7EKL TIL that all curling stones used in the winter Olympics come from Ailsa Craig in Scotland
mxr6y TIL that in The Phantom Menace, Yoda has three toes. But in The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi and Revenge of the Sith, he has four.