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TIL that in Israel there's a one-day holiday during which nobody drives. Originally a religious limitation, the tradition was adopted by large portions of the population, with adults and children riding bicycles and skating safely on empty, quiet streets (and even highways) across the nation

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YpnDW TIL that there are over 3 million "geocaches" worldwide. Small containers holding trinkets and a note that players find using Geocaching Apps or GPS devices. But you must avoid uncovering them in front of the "Muggles" People who are unaware of geocaching and may disturbed the hidden cache.
wgko TIL that as of April 2010, Bill Gates had donated over $36,854,000,000 in his lifetime, which is more than half of his current net worth of $61 billion.
1aMmW TIL McDonald's had an offer to give away free big Mac's, French fries and drinks through scratch cards with every medal that USA wins during the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics. They lost millions of dollars because USSR and it's allies boycotted the event and USA unexpectedly topped the table.
wX6P TIL that it rained nearly continually in California from Christmas Eve 1861 through the end of January 1862, destroying nearly ¼ of the property in the state, turning the Central Valley into an inland sea, and bankrupting the state
N7mM1 TIL the Voyager I and II space probes, which are currently racing through interstellar space, each include a golden record with 115 analog-encoded photographs, greetings in 55 languages, a 12-minute montage of sounds on Earth and 90 minutes of music (including Chuck Berry's 'Johnny B. Good')