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TIL the official name for a hashtag is "octothorpe".

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XERj6 TIL the American version of Whose Line Is It Anyway? was filmed over a four year period before it was cancelled but ABC was able to air another four seasons from material recorded during its original run.
69XpW TIL in 2007, an adhesive company was sued for 16million for manslaughter charges as a result of structure failure that take place in the world's most expensive highway
dVQj TIL: Archaeologists uncovered 800 year old letters in Russia. Included was schoolwork by a young boy, in which he slacked off and doodled pictures of himself taking part in adventures.
7rnRp TIL although Danny Devito and his wife Rhea Perlman played neglectful and abusive parents in Matlida, they looked over Mara Wilson during the filming of the movie when her mom was diagnosed with breast cancer.
VMvmp til of r.a.p.p. (rockers against pay-to-play), a group in los angeles in the late eighties who organized protests against hollywood music venues that required performers to buy a large amount of pre-sale tickets before they would book the aforementioned act