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TIL The Mandela Effect is a collective misremembering of a fact or event.

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Me6g8 TIL 2% of scientists admitted to falsifying, fabricating, or modifying data at least once
JYPNj TIL the frontman of Semisonic, best known for their 1998 hit "Closing Time", co-wrote "Someone Like You" with Adele
ArWx TIL Michael Jackson not only enjoyed Weird Al Yankovic’s parodies of his songs, but helped to make them- at one point signing a contract for “Eat It” as a “co-writer,” and subsequently lending Weird Al the original “Bad” subway set for Yankovic’s own music video “Fat”.
oRpl8 TIL a man named Christopher Thomas Knight ran out of gas in rural Maine in 1986, entered the woods, and lived there for 27 years without human contact.
dEG9 TIL the water speed record hasn’t been broken in over 35 years. The reason, an 85% fatality rate.