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TIL: In Season 7 of "Married With Children", Peggy's cousin "Seven" was introduced. His parents (played by Bobcat Goldtwait and Linda "Exorcist" Blair) come to visit the Bundys and abandon him while getting cigarettes. He lasted 12 episodes before vanishing, last being seen on a milk carton.

1am7P TIL Ken Livingstone was the last leader of the Greater London Council, which was abolished in 1986. He was then elected mayor of London in 2000, which included effectively the same job. He began his victory speech with "As I was saying before I was so rudely interrupted 14 years ago..."
kJdQW TIL Sitting Bull was told to give a welcome speech to a new train line in Bismarck. Instead of giving the pre-written speech he said in his native language: “"I hate you. I hate all the white people. You are thieves and liars. You have taken away our land and made us outcasts."
7177 TIL Glenn Howerton, of It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia, was born in Japan, is the son of a decorated fighter pilot, is fluent in Mandarin, Korean, French, Spanish and can speak some German and Farsi, and considered studying Aerospace Engineering at Auburn before pursuing acting
JMkB TIL during the 1990s, anti-sweatshop activists from rich countries succeeded in shutting down sweatshops in Bangladesh, forcing thousands of children into prostitution, crime, and starvation.
Zp7gB TIL of The Bachelor of Powalgarh, an exceptionally large, man-eating Indian Bengal tiger, which was sought after and eventually shot and killed by Jim Corbett in 1930. The tiger was 10 feet 7 inches long