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TIL A popular rapper Corey "C-Murder" Miller became popular in the 1990s until he... Well, committed a murder and was sentenced to life in prison.

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Z8rl4 TIL about Dulmial a village in Pakistan, known as the “village with the gun” and “Hometown of gunners” which provided 460 soldiers to the British forces in WWI the largest participation of any village in South Asia. It was awarded with a canon in recognition to its WWI contributions by the British.
pRxp TIL - Scientists have trained a Petri dish full of neurons from a rat brain to successfully fly a F22 flight simulator.
j6w4X Today I learned cockroaches have individual personalities.
e0kMJ TIL Edgar Allen Poe once wrote a love letter to the dash, a form of punctuation he felt was unfairly demonized.
8evAa TIL that not only does the Mediterranean Sea have Great White sharks, but that historically they were some of the biggest every caught.