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TIL LION KING was considered the ‘B-movie’ during production and all the top Disney animators were working on POCAHONTAS

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ODJX TIL of a British proposal to have a sniper assassinate Hitler that was vetoed because it was ‘unsportsmanlike’
AD0wn TIL bottles often had round bottoms prior to the invention of the metal bottle cap to prevent upright storage
EgyZP TIL in 1948, Paul Hermann Müller won the Nobel Prize for the discovery of the potent toxic effects on insects by DDT. This pesticide was later on linked to deaths and adverse reproductive effects in both animals and humans.
Me80 TIL in 1778, Thomas Jefferson authored a bill that would change the penalty for rape or sodomy from death, to castration.
oQgL TIL at one point in the late sixties, a plane was hijacked and diverted to Cuba more than once a week.