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TIL that Living Colour vocalist Corey Glover originally aspired to be an actor and was recruited by guitarist and founder Vernon Reid after seeing him sing "Happy Birthday" at a party.

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0DRv TIL that a holocaust denial group offered $50,000 to anyone who could prove that gas chambers were used to intentionally kill people at Auschwitz. They were forced by a judge to pay that money, and an additional $40,000, to Auschwitz survivor Mel Mermelstein who provided proof of that very fact.
MeGg0 TIL There is a a village in Hungary founded by Communist Greek refugees who left Greece after the civil war.
VAJ8 TIL in season one of HBO’s Game of Thrones, the Dire wolves were played by a relatively new breed of dog known as the Northern Inuit Dog.
NX8QN TIL that Marge Simpson was featured in Playboy November 2009
XE8XR TIL NBA player George Hill owns an 850-acre ranch in Texas filled with kangaroos, zebras, ostriches, wildebeests, elk, antelope, Arabian oryx, red lechwes, New Zealand red stags, kudus, and other exotic animals