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TIL Mice don’t actually like cheese and are even repelled by many cheeses due to the smell. If they’re hungry enough they’ll try to eat anything, but they won’t actively seek out cheese.

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4JMX TIL in 1997 two men inspired by movie “Heat” tried to rob US bank while being heavily armed and wearing custom made body armor. In deadly shootout that followed police was so outgunned that had to borrow weapons from gun store nearby. Whole shootout was captured on camera from helicopter
jm0a TIL that Pete Best, the original drummer for ‘The Beatles’, released an album of original songs titled “Best of the Beatles” at the height of their popularity. Fans bought it thinking it was a compilation album.
Wko0A TIL: Jim Lovell, a carrier-based pilot facing instrument failure, used the luminescent wake of the aircraft carrier to locate the ship. He would later command the Apollo 13 mission.
mgGo TIL of Ryan Frederick: A Virginia man who shot a cop during a no knock raid on his home in the middle of the night looking for a cannabis grow operation. Frederick thought it was a burglar and the cops only found a koi pond and Japanese maples and a small amount of cannabis. He was given 10 years.
xVZVD TIL the streaking scene in Old School was filmed at night and every store was closed except a 24 hour gym. On the first take, several people in the gym shriek in horror as a naked Will Ferrell passed by them. In the ensuing takes no one was near the gym's windows.