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TIL corporate fines are tax-deductible as long as they are "made for the purpose of gaining or producing income from the business" (in Canada)

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grPmX TIL that industrial beehives are built around the concept of "bee space," a specific gap width that bees will avoid plugging with comb or propolis (bee glue)
ep7N5 TIL, for a scene in his movie Tenet, where a Boeing 747 plane crashes into (a fictional) Oslo Airport, they crashed an ACTUAL, REAL 747, because Christopher Nolan determined it would actually be cheaper than models or CGI.
BgpmW TIL on February 27, 1942, nine saboteurs scaled a cliff in the middle of the night to blow up a Nazi-controlled heavy water plant in Norway.
y7Z8 TIL after Elon Musk tweeted out the corrupted raw video stream from his Falcon 9 rocket’s vertical landing a group of space enthusiasts made a custom MPEG4 decoder built specifically to clean up the SpaceX footage. Their work verified the rocket landed correctly
mxWvp TIL former Canadian musician Antoine Sicotte (Sky) has been working as a chef since 2009 as The Rebel Chef, having hosted his own cooking show and authored several cookbooks.