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TIL most people have heard of the International Space Station (ISS) but few people have ever heard of Aquarius, a permanent underwater lab off the cost of Florida.

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QJ0rM TIL of Edward Pulaski, a firefighter who in 1910 saved the lives of most of his forty-five man crew by leading them into an abandoned mine shaft when they were surrounded by a wildfire, and then personally stopping the fire from following them despite being badly burned.
Wnjd TIL that lawyer who helped Honda fight against rollover bars for quad bikes was killed in a quad bike accident.
ReYQ TIL Due to a hospital error, two pairs of Colombian identical twins were raised as two pairs of fraternal twins. One set was raised in rural farm setting, the other in a middle class urban setting
D14nP TIL starting from second crusade many in Christendom believed in a powerful Indian Christian King named Prestor John who was about to come with his powerful army from east to crush the muslim armies.
MeKRV TIL when the New York Jets played the Miami Dolphins in London in 2015, the team had 350 rolls of American toilet paper shipped to England on the recommendation of an intern who said British toilet paper was too thin.