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TIL that Bill Murray confused Joel Cohen with Joel Coen and ended up doing Garfield: The Movie

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v1RD4 TIL the Texas state prison rodeo was the only integrated sporting event in the South in the 1930s, and all state prisoners were bussed in to attend
EnwV TIL that astronomers recently discovered an unfathomably large structure just beyond the edge of the known universe that is pulling galaxies towards it at breakneck speeds. Some think it could be another universe butting up against ours.
nWEjW TIL of the 1972 Farrell's Ice Cream Parlor air show disaster.
MeJab Today I Learned about Wilson “One-Man Regiment” Watson, a Medal of Honor recipient from the Battle of Iwo Jima. He is credited for being the inspiration of John Wayne’s “Shooting from the hip” style, along with single-handedly killing 90 Japanese Soldiers during the battle.
oPr8 TIL that in America, Japanese “Hibachi” steakhouses actually use Teppanyaki grills; a Hibachi is a small, charcoal-burning bowl.