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TIL in 1990, thieves disguised as police officers stole 13 artworks valued at $500 million from Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, making it the largest unsolved art heist in history. Despite extensive investigations, the artworks have never been recovered.

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nE4P TIL Bela Lugosi, who portrayed Dracula in many films, was actually born in Transylvania
p8vW8 TIL in the lead up to Midway, the US suspected that a Japanese target called "AF" is Midway. To test this, US Pacific Command instructed Midway to give a signal indicating that they're out of water. The Japanese, immediately signalled that "AF is out of water".
b9n19 TIL the CIA once paid prostitutes to lure individuals into monitored safe houses in New York, San Francisco, & Marin. The prostitutes then gave their clients LSD and other substances while the CIA watched through one way glass.
D10GP TIL of “The Milk”. In 1994, a student at MIT bought a carton of milk but forgot to use it, and rediscovered it 10 months later. Instead of binning it he threw a ‘birthday’ for it. A cult following developed for this legendary expired dairy product. In 2015 it celebrated its 21st birthday.
rRVl0 TIL that FIVE movies sold more than an estimated 135 million tickets in North American; Titanic 135.5 million ; E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial 141.8 million ; The Sound of Music 142.5 million ; Star Wars (Episode IV) 178.1 million and Gone with the Wind 202.3 million (the full list is in the link)