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TIL a donut shop in Portland, Oregon was told by the FDA to stop adding medicine to food because it included Nyquil and Pepto Bismol to its donuts.

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pbBN TIL that United Airlines suffered from a 10% fall of stock prices after Dave Carroll released the musicvideo “United Breaks Guitars”
x64AD TIL the jury in trial for Snowtown serial killer John Bunting were banned from listening to ‘Throwing Copper’ by the band ‘Live’ because Bunting played it to his victims as he tortured and killed then in his bathtub.
v1AKK TIL Mark Twain wrote an anti-imperial response to Rudyard Kipling's 'The White Man's Burden' entitled 'To the Person Sitting in Darkness'. The essay is considered one of Twain's darkest and most sarcastic works, openly criticizing missionaries, profiteers, and the brutality of colonialism.
wLRjW TIL Colorado researchers have 3D printed miniature Lego-style bone bricks that can heal broken bones. The blocks, which are the size of a flea, help regrowth and can be interlocked like toy bricks. They hope to scale the technology and use it to supply laboratory-made organs for human transplant.
Pp1n TIL that Mythbuster’s Jamie Hyneman ran away from home at the age of 14 and then hitchhiked all over the US. After that he is now a certified diver,wilderness survival expert, boat captain, linguist, pet shop owner, animal wrangler, machinist, concrete inspector, and chef.