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TIL Ciabatta bread was only recently invented in 1982
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TIL The Venus Flytrap is native only to a 60-mile radius around Wilmington, North Carolina and nowhere else
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TIL In 2013 In lieu of Money, Toyota helped Food Bank-which is the countries largest anti-hunger charity-by improving the system at Food Bank and cut down the wait time for dinner to 18 minutes from as long as 90. Toyota used "Kaizen" (continuous improvement) instead of just giving a check.
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TIL Robert Clary, the actor who played stalag prisoner Corporal LaBeau on the TV Show Hogan’s Heroes, was an Auschwitz survivor
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TIL about Janusz Korczak, an educator who refused offers of sanctuary in 1943 and chose to accompany nearly 200 children from his orphanage when they were deported to a death camp. He was never heard from again.
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TIL in 1790, George Washington checked out (and never returned) two books from the New York Society Library, one of which was finally replaced, in 2010, by representatives of his estate at Mount Vernon