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TIL Hitler was nominated for the Nobel Peace Price in 1939

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OGgwY TIL Schlitz used to shine UV light on their beer and market it as a health food: Sunshine Vitamin D Beer
X0vLr TIL Soap Was Once Made of Animal Fat and Wood Ashes
dL49 TIL Eddie Murphy almost didn’t get a spot on the Saturday Night Live cast because “the black cast member had already been chosen”.
avEL TIL the NFL is considered a not-for-profit organization and does not pay taxes.
kOwb7 TIL of John Von Neumann, a mathematician polymat that invented computers (the architecture in every digital computer today), a precursor theory of DNA without having been a biologist, played a pivotal in creating the Atom bomb, and laid out the mathematical framework for quantum mechanics.