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TIL that to promote Spinal Tap’s 1992 album, Break Like The Wind, radio stations were sent a colander labelled as "Spinal Tap Official 1992 Calendar".

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yQK0p TIL 36 men volunteered to starve for a year in an experiment, known as the Minnesota Starvation Experiment, to study the psychological and physiological effects of starvation
R4Dw TIL Emma Stone, an Actress, gave a PowerPoint presentation to her parents, set to the Madonna song “Hollywood”, to convince them to let her move to California for an acting career. Also, Stone’s low-pitched husky voice is a result of having baby colic, a condition of frequent screaming as an infant
d80NK TIL an american dentist inscribed the words "Remember Pearl Harbor" secretly in morse code inside the dentures of former Japanese PM Gen. Hideki Tojo who ordered the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
eOmn TIL: Squirrels cause seventeen percent of fiber optic cable cuts
W74MY TIL that Coca-Cola is currently flavored with decocainized coca leaves