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TIL that the 1974 noir film "Chinatown" was intended to be the first of a trilogy. The second, "The Two Jakes" bombed at the box office. Consequently, the third, "Cloverleaf" was never produced. However, the script was incorporated into the noir parody film "Who Framed Roger Rabbit."

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vpax TIL a Peruvian football club tried to avoid relegation by moving their stadium to one of the highest cities in the world, so their opponents would suffer from altitude sickness. Oh, and their nickname was “Los Wankeros”.
nWpLP TIL - Mount Carmel Cemetery is a popular final resting place for Chicago mobsters (Capone, Nitti, Giancana) as well as Chicago catholic cardinals.
j68dX TIL for the first 2 years after Marla Gibbs got cast on The Jeffersons, she kept her job as a reservations agent at United Airlines. She would work at the CBS television studio during the day and then go to United Airlines, where she worked the night shift.
DQNYY TIL that at the 1992 Winter Olympics Tonya Harding figure skated to a song called "People Are Still Having Sex." The non-instrumental was a Billboard US dance chart #1 hit, featuring a narrator talking about the fact that people are still having sex.
6awZ TIL that Earl Wild, the first person to play the piano on US television was also the first to stream a performance on the Internet 58 year later