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TIL the average Broadway theatergoer earns $261,000 a year in household income.

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A7ad TIL in 1973, a Libyan passenger jet having navigational problems wandered into Israeli airspace. When 2 Israeli F-4s intercepted the jet and instructed the crew to land, they refused because of bad Libyan-Israeli relations at the time. The jet was then shot down, killing 108 people.
Z8ZKv TIL That there is a volcano in Ethiopia that spits blue lava
yMmv TIL Eton College - one of the most expensive schools in Britain - was originally founded to provide free education to poor boys
W790o TIL: If you have just $4,210 to your name, you're still richer than half of the people on Earth.
vP5m4 TIL about Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump. A cliff in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains was used for 5,500 years to run buffalo off it to their death. A pile of bones 30 feet tall and hundreds of feet long can be found at the base of the cliff.