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TIL Plankton can refer to microscopic organisms that live in the air as well as the ocean

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69EW8 TIL that the reason the English football club Sheffield Wednesday is named after the day of the week is because the factory workers who played for the team had a half day on Wednesday
xrYw TIL R. Lee Ermey was initially hired only to be the technical advisor on the set of Full Metal Jacket. Kubrick changed his mind after Ermey put together an instructional tape, in which he went on an extended tirade towards several extras
p7gO TIL that, as of June 1 2012, The List of Advanced Dungeons and Dragons 2nd edition Monsters is the longest Wikipedia article ever.
WMNX TIL During a coal miner’s strike Rockefeller hired thugs to strafe the workers camp with machine gun fire. They then burned and looted the camp, killing men, women and children in the process.
v1JA8 TIL that stripper poles spin in place, rather than the performer sliding around them.