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TIL John Larroquette was paid with pot for his voiceover work on the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre

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Bg8Be TIL that Zambia entered the 1964 Olympics as a British Colony and exited it as an independent country, gaining independence on the same day as the closing cereomny
gkdb TIL in Aug 1914 the Frank Lloyd Wright’s estate in WI was set on fire by a male servant. The servant then killed Wright’s mistress Mamah Cheney, her 2 children and 4 estate workers with an axe. Afterwards he drank muriatic acid but was caught and died in jail 7 weeks later from self starvation.
16AN8 TIL there's a digital SPFX programme named 'Kierasil' that is used for skin touch ups, named after Keira Knightly who was the actress the SPFX company invented it for.
Dayv TIL that North Koreans eat 375 calories a day
x597 TIL despite that only 39% of the surveyed people in Japan say they are religious, around 90% visit Shinto Shrines