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TIL Hudson Bay and its shores are populated by more Beluga whales than people.

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eJb6 TIL Ashton Kutcher is the co-founder of Thorn. Thorn is a company outsourced by the FBI to catch pedophiles and stop sex trafficking.
e0dJ4 TIL the Doomsday rule is an algorithm to find the day of the week for a given date. It takes advantage of each year having a certain day, called the doomsday, upon which certain dates fall; e.g, 4/4, 6/6, 8/8, 10/10, 12/12, & last day of Feb all occur on the same day of the week in any year
mxKEP TIL that the Statue of Liberty was orginally intended for the Suez Canal. When the Canal neared completion, the sculptor Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi requested to build a sculpture he named "Egypt Bringing light to Asia" at the canal's entrance. When he was denied, he went with his ideas to New York.
GbOE TIL we can’t dispose of nuclear waste in volcanoes because they aren’t hot enough to split uranium’s atomic nuclei and make it's​ radioactivity inert
xJv5 TIL Gary Burghoff, who played Radar O'Reilly on MASH, has a visibly deformed left hand, which ironically would have made him unfit for military service. They tried to hide it throughout the series’ run by having Radar hold a clipboard or other hand-obscuring prop in virtually all his scenes