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TIL in all 5 major North American sports, none of the teams that hold the respective winningest season record won the championship that same season

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8OVL TIL all competitors in the Olympics get a participation medal.
oBDW8 TIL During the great depression there was a Candy Bar Called Chicken Dinner that featured a picture of a delicious roasted chicken on the wrapper but contained no chicken.
k8We TIL there are now more Americans in jail, 6 million, than there were in Stalin’s Gulag, with 80% of those in jail for “possession.”
rNWe1 TIL that the Utah state bird is the seagull (Larus californicus). This is because seagulls saved the people of Utah by eating up crickets that were destroying crops in 1848.
ANwog TIL that there are more trees on earth than there are stars in the milky way [3 trillion to 400 billion]