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TIL while practicing for the '92 Olympics, the Dream Team lost (62-54) to an assembled squad of the best NCAA players. Head Coach Chuck Daly had limited Jordan's playing time & also made other non-optimal substitions in order to "throw the game" to teach the NBA players that they were not unbeatable

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NDjM TIL that not once in Humpty Dumpty does it refer to him as an egg.
LkEeP TIL that in 2007, 2008 and every year from 2011 to 2015, a 6-foot Lego minifigure washed up on the shore somewhere in the world with the words "NO REAL THAN YOU ARE" written on it. They are all signed by "Ego Leonard" (or L, Ego), an artist whose actual name and identity are unknown.
5VBVn TIL that in 2015, a Louisiana man was arrested for drunkenly riding a horse on a highway. When detained, he said, "The horse knows the way home" and the sheriff concluded it did not constitute DUI.
4kAVg TIL a Greenland shark — a species that's half-blind, scavenge on polar bear carcasses, survives for hundreds of years and is thought to live in freezing Arctic waters — was discovered in an unexpected place: Belize.
pYGXQ TIL Mark Hamill followed up Star Wars with a weird comedy called Corvette Summer. He plays a high school student who befriends a sex worker and joins a crime ring while hitchhiking to Las Vegas to recover a stolen Corvete. It's essentially the Dude, Where's My Car of the 70s