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TIL The country of Swaziland renamed itself Eswatini in 2018.

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GLZE TIL the industrial band Ministry named their third album “The Land of Rape and Honey.” Which is the actual town motto for the rural town of Tisdale, Saskatchewan. An agricultural town known for honey and rapeseed production.
9wNrG TIL Leonard Nimoy refused to join Star Trek the Animated Series without George Takai and Nichelle Nichols claiming they were proof of ethic diversity in the 23rd century.
jL0X TIL The temperature difference between the ocean floor and surface can be used to generate electricity, and that one power plant of this kind operates in Japan.
wJpE TIL of an obese man who was found to have hidden bags of weed in his fat folds, he was initially pulled over for not wearing a seatbelt because he was too large.
g994 TIL Aztec king Montezuma drank 50 cups of chocolate a day