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TIL In the film "Dirty dancing", Patrick Swayze found Jennifer Grey very "unprofessional" and in a scene Jennifer Grey kept getting ticklish when when they had to film a scene where she raises her arm and he had to stroke her side. They did that take 20 times and she burst into laughter every time.

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rRygW TIL that Pope Stephen VI dug up the corpse of Pope Formosus, who had been buried only 7 months, and put him on trial for perjury and illegally acceding to his papacy. just propped him up there, dead as hell, and if you can believe it, found him guilty.
Zp0mG TIL that in 2007, two Cuban boxers, Erislandy Lara and Guillermo Rigondeaux, deserted the Cuban delegation during the Pan-American Games. The Brazilian authorities arrested and deported them back to Cuba, and in 2008 and 2009 both of them successfully defected to Mexico.
Xeer TIL that Philipe Val the editor of “Charlie Hebdo”, the french weekly that is running the caricature of Mohamed and has countless time provoked muslim, found a cartoon linking jew to money and power offensive and told its author to apologise. When he refused he was fired for being an “antisemite”.
WkRNB TIL Mosquitoes are the WORLD'S DEADLIEST ANIMAL, not tigers or sharks
AJbn TIL the Orange Julius grew out of an orange juice stand opened in Los Angeles in 1926 by Julius Freed. People began lining up at the store and shouting, “Give me an Orange, Julius!” Eventually, the new drink would simply be called “the Orange Julius”.