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TIL In an interview for Hot Tub Time Machine, John Cusack stated that he made his decision to join the cast of this film almost entirely based off of the title.

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BrJgL TIL Nala, a beluga calf born to much fanfare one summer at the Vancouver Aquarium died a year later of a "bizarre" condition. Staff discovered that Nala had an abnormal pocket beneath her larynx, or voice box, which contained two stones and a penny
8aE68 TIL: Today’s average teenagers know vastly more about the Milky Way and other galaxies than professional astronomers of 100 years ago.
kR4 TIL the average person doesn’t know the opposites of the following words: Always, Coming, From, Take, Me, Down…
k56m TIL that 1 American consumes the same amount of resources as 32 Kenyans per year.
gjW8 TIL Soviet scientists tried to create nuclear 7.62 mm bullets for AKM/PKM. They used californium-252 instead of uranium or plutonium. Each bullet had enough power to destroy a tank (100—700 kg of TNT equivalent)