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TIL In Sweden, starting with The Producers, the titles of most Mel Brook’s movies begin with “Springtime For”

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OoD9Y TIL as The Simpsons is hand drawn it takes 3 months to complete an episode, but South Park only takes a week as it is computerised.
xEyD TIL There is a road in Lancaster, CA that has grooves carved in it that when you drive over them all, they play The William Tell Overture.
LkbZd TIL there once lived a species of pterodactyl dubbed Cryodrakon boreas, which translates to "frozen dragon of the north wind," that had a wingspan of 33 feet, about as wide as an F-16 fighter jet.
d04Q TIL, a year ago, Neptune completed it’s first orbit since it was discovered. That’s over 165 years!
41Na TIL the term “junkie” comes from the fact that recreational heroin users in the early 1900s would collect and sell scrap metal to pay for their heroin.