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TIL of the Mary Celeste, an American merchant ship found adrift by the Dei Gratia, intact & crew missing, in the Atlantic off the Azores in 1872, a month after leaving port. Though amply supplied and personal belongings intact, there was no sign of where or why they left. The crew was never found.

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OGZyX TIL Neil Armstrong was filmed as he stepped on the moon with a $2.3 million upside-down camera. Westinghouse built for Apollo 11 a special model that the astronaut deployed by pulling a handle near the ladder he climbed down onto the lunar surface. NASA inverted the image for the TV audience.
0wk1N TIL of the Zoo Hypothesis, which is that aliens know we earthlings are here but are purposely avoiding contact, and which is also a plausible solution to the Fermi Paradox ("Where is everybody?" - given the number of places in the universe that are estimated to be life-friendly)
PyNG TIL some have argued that the US legally holds sovereignty over Taiwan due to a peace treaty signed at the end of World War II. In 2006, a group of Taiwanese residents unsuccessfully filed a complain asking for Taiwanese residents to receive US Constitutional rights for this reason.
rNy9M TIL On 9/11 Astronaut Frank Culbertson was staying on the International Space Station and the only American off the planet. As soon as he learned of the attacks, he flew over New York City to document the event in photos and posted a public letter capturing his feelings of what happened
BryDy TIL politicians mocked John Adams, nicknaming him "His Rotundity" after he had suggested that the president should be titled like royalty, suggesting titles such as, "His Majesty the President" and “His Highness, the President of the United States of America, and Protector of the Rights of the Same"