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TIL that occasionally, when a woman gives birth, she is unable to deliver the placenta, so a doctor will have to reach into the uterus and manually extract it, which is oftentimes far more painful than the delivery itself.

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8aG TIL filmmaker Theo van Gogh (who shared his name with his great-grandfather, Vincent van Gogh’s brother) was assassinated for openly criticizing Islam
RKrl TIL A feral pig once drank 18 cans of beer, fought a cow and then passed out drunk under a tree
gr8jy TIL: Disney is contractually obligated to air The 700 Club, Pat Robertson's ultra-conservative Christian news magazine, three times a day on its Freeform cable channel, even though the rest of its shows have rather liberal themes. They play disclaimers beforehand to warn the audience.
R5dWQ TIL Halo 2 was delayed for PC because someone stuck a picture of themselves mooning the camera into the game's code.
jNnna TIL in 1859, the aboriginals of Andaman islands armed just with Arrows and spears, went on a battle against the highly armed British who had setup a penal colony in Andaman, only to be crushed within a few hours, as they didn't know the British had already been tipped off about the impending attack.