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TIL Apple had a mysterious zeroclick exploit affecting many of its products that went undetected for 4 years. When it was discovered it was largely unreported by the media

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lxe7 TIL a recent poll showed that most newlyweds did not have sex on their wedding night
pYrVO TIL The hit song 'Walk Like an Egyptian' was inspired when the song writer was on a ship in rough waters and the way people bent their arms as they steadied themselves reminded him of old Egyptian poses. He originally offered the song to Tony Basil (Oh Mickey) but she turned it down.
rNwX1 TIL the critically endangered Panamanian golden frog is being bred in captivity in order to preserve the species.
6El5Y TIL that Molly Norris, the cartoonist responsible for starting "Everybody Draw Mohammed Day", was forced by the FBI to change her identity after Islamists put her on a hit list. As of 2015, she's still in hiding.
8aJQa TIL the man responsible for cookies is Lou Montulli. He developed one of the earliest Web browsers, Lynx, in 1991, and was responsible for a variety of Web innovations including the blink tag, server push and client pull, and HTTP proxying.