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TIL all the dogs that have played Lassie are descended from the original actor, Pal

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wJZ8 TIL Iran tried to get into the Guinness book of world records by making the worlds largest sandwich. But people started eating it before it could be officially measured so they failed.
NedM TIL when Little Nell, who played Columbia in Rocky Horror, was 18, she worked as a shoe salesperson in London, alongside a young Freddy Mercury.
nBaG TIL that a college dropout fooled her parents into believing she was still enrolled in order to continue collecting tuition money. Then on graduation day, she called in bomb threats so her parents wouldn’t see her not graduate.
9YlQ7 TIL Jupiter's moon Io, the most volcanically active world in the Solar System, has volcanic eruptions so powerful that they can be seen with large telescopes on Earth
Oo16g TIL about an old film from 1915 called Filibus, Though Italian reviews at the time of its release were negative, Filibus has been well received by later writers and film historians, who have highlighted the film's pioneering use of lesbian attraction, genderfluidity , and science fiction motifs.