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TIL that Mama Cass Elliot and Keith Moon both died in not only the same apartment but also the same bed.

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RmKQ TIL Nick Ut, the photojournalist who took the Pulitzer Prize-winning “Napalm girl” photo during the Vietnam War, put down his camera after taking the shot, rushed the girl to a hospital and forced them to treat her. The girl survived and the two have remained in touch ever since
4w1w TIL after 11 years in space, the Rosetta probe was intentionally crashed into a comet in order to provide close-up photos on its final descent. Scientists said they wanted it to go out in “true rock'n'roll style.”
J1jZQ TIL: Vasily was a serial killer who would target clients looking to buy one of his horses. He would get them drunk with vodka and then kill them. His wife discovered his murders years after and reacted calmly and then began to aid him. He killed 33 customers before he was caught.
9wOp6 TIL that the original lyrics to “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” were much more depressing. The lyrics were changed because Judy Garland refused to sing those lyrics to a child. The lyrics were then changed once more because Frank Sinatra wanted the song to have a more positive tone.
5Yma8 TIL that in 1924 the KKK tried to move into South Bend before the Irish Catholic students of Notre Dame drove them out by throwing potatoes