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TIL Santa Claus got a Pilot's License in 1927, According to the Library of Congress

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N7WM8 TIL that the marriage of Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter is the longest presidential marriage in US history. They had already been married for 30 years when Carter was sworn in as president in 1977.
e0rn4 TIL, Disney's the Parent Trap was an adaptation of a German novel that had been adapted three times, in three different countries before Disney got the rights to it
gyO9 TIL there is a 99.26% correlation (r=0.992558) between divorce rates in Maine and the per capita consumption of margarine.
xDVo TIL that MMA (Mixed Martial Arts) was done at the ancient Olympics. It is called Pankration and is the only event that wasn’t reinstated with the creation of the modern Olympics.
96QG TIL in Albania there are the buneshas: a whole group of women who choose to remain virgins and live their live as men.