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TIL The guy who designed the original Twitter’s logo only made about $3 off iStockPhoto

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Ed7W TIL Newman’s own foods donates 100% of its post tax profits to charity. As of June 2012 these donations have exceeded 330 million dollars.
P15Dg TIL that the longest recorded case of hiccups lasted for 68 years! Charles Osborne from Iowa started hiccuping in 1922 and continued until 1990, hiccuping an estimated 430 million times during that period. His hiccups finally stopped one year before his death in 1991.
OoowR 26-year-old Kate McWilliams has become one of the world's youngest commercial airline captains, flying with Easyjet. Her co-pilot is Luke Elsworth, 19.
yDWX TIL a gay Vietnam veteran once said “I got a medal for killing two men and a discharge for loving one”
LQkym TIL that Napoleon's penis was allegedly amputated during an autopsy shortly his death in 1821, and was exhibited and passed through several owners from that day onwards.