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TIL between 365 million and 988 million birds are killed annually by striking buildings in the United States

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R5RWl TIL in 2003, Marvel planned to publish a five-part comic series entitled 'Di Another Day' featuring a resurrected Diana, Princess of Wales, as a mutant with superpowers.
Lkg7v TIL Prof John Lorber discovered a maths genius who had almost no brain due to a condition known as hydrocephalus. He went on to discover many other people with 90% of their brains missing that had normal to high IQs
MepYm TIL the tsunami of Christmas 2004 created a massive cliff 750 miles long and 50 feet high.
lo4yN TIL at the Skeleton Coast (called by natives "The Land God Made in Anger") where the Atlantic meets the Namib desert, over 1000 ships have met their end.
ynAp TIL That George Clooney uses most of his earnings from the Nespresso adverts to fund a spy satellite over Sudan to prevent genocide.