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TIL Wearing ties was introduced by the Croats but then adopted by the French

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MrA TIL The London Olympic Village is providing a record 150,000 condoms to this year’s 10,490 athletes.
RbG9 TIL in The Fellowship of the Ring, Vigo Mortensen really deflected an oncoming dagger thrown a little too accurately
gr1e4 TIL Neil Armstrong completed almost all required coursework towards a master's degree when he joined NASA in early 1960s. A semester short, he returned to USC after his moon landing in 1970 to give a one-hour seminar on the technical aspects of landing Apollo's lunar module to receive his Masters
E1wWX TIL A man won the $5.5 million state lottery but had to forfeit the winnings because he bought the ticket with the proceeds of selling 36 grams of cocaine to a federal informant.
vwRK TIL The word “Beetlejuice” was said once in each of the first 3 seasons of Community, and on the third time, they had someone dressed as Beetlejuice walk through the background