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TIL Basil Rathbone, Ronald Colman, Claude Rains, and Herbert Marshall all served in the London Scottish Regiment in World War I. All won medals for valor, and all but Rathbone were wounded. Rains got his trademark husky voice because his vocal cords had been paralyzed in a poison gas attack.

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QJGvp TIL The Princess Bride had an alternate ending with Fred Savage looking out his window and see the four heroes on horseback. Andre the Giant was too heavy for a horse so they set up a cable system. That day of shooting Andre showed up drunk and workers had to lift a drunk giant on that horse.
RaY4 TIL The British military still practice bayonet charges, and in Iraq after being ambushed and running out of ammo, 20 men from the 16th Air Assault Brigade charged 600ft through open ground, overran enemy positions that outnumbered them 5 to 1, and left with no casualties
VMOmG TIL of Philippa Fawcett, an English mathematician and the first woman to have topped the Cambridge Mathematical Tripos, but who despite scoring 13% higher than the second top scorer did not receive the honorary title of Senior Wrangler.
M71kB TIL that only three soccer teams competed at the 1904 Olympics: the Canadian team of Galt F.C. won the gold, two teams from the USA (Christian Brothers College and St. Rose Parish) won the silver and bronze medals.
R51Qw TIL That the fortress/prison Chateau d'If, made famous by The Count of Monte Cristo, was a real prison and became a tourist attraction in the years after the book's publication.