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TIL Samwise's (Sean Astin) dad is Gomez Addams (John Astin)

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9jap TIL that there is a village in Brazil where the twinning rate is 10% compared to the global 0.4%. Josef Mengele, the Nazi doctor who conducted twin “studies” at Auschwitz, relocated to Southern Brazil in 1963 leading to a theory that he experimented on locals causing an abnormally high twin ratio.
XE0j TIL that wikipedia operates an online university called wikiversity with over 13,000 free lessons on a wide variety of subjects.
9wMe6 TIL "steep learning curve" is used incorrectly, it actually means something is easy to learn. Something hard to learn has a flat learning curve
9YE1M TIL Regis Philbin holds the Guinness World Record for clocking more hours in front of a television camera than anyone else in the history of television
yQyKw TIL in 2010, governor Arnold Schwarzenegger wrote a veto letter to the California State Assembly that spelled out "Fuck you" if you read the first letter of every line.