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TIL The anime Ghost Stores did so poorly in Japan that the original writers allowed the American dub to be whatever it wanted, so the Americans turned a horror anime into a comedy one

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GAwG7 TIL of the Acali expedition, a social experiment that aimed to investigate interpersonal relationships in an isolated environment. Nicknamed the "Sex Raft," its participants remained peaceful throughout, even when the researcher tried to incite conflict.
x6Nnk TIL about the Nichoria bone. A fossilized thigh bone belonging to an immense extinct mammal and found by the ancient Greeks. Believing the bone belonged to a giant, the Greeks venerated it. Thought to be long lost, it was rediscovered in Duluth, Minnesota.
KDxJ TIL that there is a hanging display in Chicago of 58,226 dog tags of every American soldier killed in Vietnam.
Wl08 TIL in 2012, due to a flood, a drunk North Korean man wearing only his underwear floated on driftwood to a South Korean island
VMWmQ TIL: The Soviet K-429 nuclear submarine sunk twice and than became a training sub