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TIL that many animals commonly thought as herbivores will occasionally eat meat.

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OJ71 TIL In 1932 the US Public Health Service conducted a study involving roughly 400 African American men who had contracted syphilis. The men participated in exams meant to study the long term effects of untreated syphilis. They were never given proper treatment and the study continued for 40 years.
6ZZW TIL as eclipses can be mathematically calculated, the eclipse of May 28, 585 BC, which stopped a battle in Greece, was said by Isaac Asimov to be the earliest human event known to the exact date and time.
XEVY8 TIL: Alligator Rivers, NT, Australia. whilst home to the largest of the reptiles, the Salt Water Crocodile, is void of any Alligators
VQKG TIL that as President, Jimmy Carter was attacked by a swimming rabbit.
m8oy TIL the kid who played opposite Will Ferrell in Everything Must Go is Biggie Small’s son.