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TIL there is a store in Alabama that only sells clothes, cameras, etc found in unclaimed baggage at airports

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awYPM TIL of eccentric English aristocrat Gerald Tyrwhitt-Wilson, 14th Baron Berners [1883-1950]. A talented composer, writer and artist, Lord Berners had a clavichord in his Rolls-Royce, paper flowers in his garden, had tea with a horse and would drive around his estate in a pig mask to scare the locals.
R7oP8 TIL certain wagers aren't allowed on Jeopardy, such as $666, $69, and $1488
X0QPj TIL that despite its name, "Kentish Town", an area of London, is neither a town nor located in Kent, has never been part of Kent, and there is nothing particularly "Kentish" about it.
VM7W8 Today I learned that the peanut butter jelly time vocalist died in a 11 hour shooting, his brother in law was snoop Dogg
VKjD TIL that Samuel Jackson took Martin Luther King Sr. hostage during an equal rights protest in Memphis, Tennessee.