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TIL “Hitchen’s razor”, the concept that something asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence, predates Christopher Hitchens by hundreds of years.

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N7MR6 TIL the term 'spam' referring to unwanted junk emails comes from Monty Python's Spam sketch
GAMRG TIL as Spielberg was filming Jurassic Park's climatic scene as originally scripted (with the velociraptors defeated by Dr. Alan Grant & John Hammond), he had the last-minute idea to bring back the T-Rex for the climax. As an "off-the-cuff thing", the physical effects had to be setup in about 24 hrs.
JYRdj TIL: An 18th century German named Matthew Birchinger, aka "the little man of Nuremberg," played instruments, was a calligrapher and a famous magician. He performed tricks that have never been explained. Yet he had no hands, legs, or thighs, and was less than 29 inches tall.
j6p4M TIL about Mortimer Taube, a pioneer in information and library sciences, whose "Computers and Common Sense: The Myth of Thinking Machines" (1961) and its analysis/critique of "thinking machines" is still relevant to today's discussions involving artificial intelligence
0EAA TIL From 1994 to 2013: there are substantially fewer murders, robberies, rapes, aggravated assaults, property crimes, and burglaries….despite the US population increasing by almost 60 million people.