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TIL Danny Trejo has 27 movie slated for release in 2015.

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lRE7 TIL that when a Holocaust denial group offered $50,000 dollars to “prove that Jews were gassed at Auschwitz,” a camp survivor, Mel Mermelstein sent them definitive proof. When they refused to pay, he sued them and was given $90,000 when the court noted, “It is simply a fact.”
ema5 TIL that a whale’s ear wax builds up over the course of its life and can be analysed like tree-rings.
R7Op8 TIL that the mountain K2 (the 2nd highest in the world) was named such as a placeholder, literally "the 2nd peak in the Karakoram mountain range". it stuck because the mountain is so remote that no one else had given it a name.
9YrmQ TIL A 14-year-old visited a Chinese hospital with stomach pains after experiencing constipation for five days. Doctors believe that she drank so much bubble tea that about a hundred tapioca pearls built up in her body, causing a blockage
8gBL TIL the Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional to restrict the sale of video games by their rating because they are protected speech under the first ammendment