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TIL about the Dalma Culture, a Prehistoric Archaeological Culture of North-Western Iran dating back to the Fifth Millennium B.C. with their Settlement Patterns showing No Signs of Social Hierarchy

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kOBN5 TIL Jay-Z released "Glory" on January 9, 2012, a song dedicated to his first child, Blue Ivy Carter. Because Blue's cries were included at the end of the song and she was officially credited on the song as "B.I.C", at two days old she became the youngest person ever to appear on a Billboard chart.
JLBj TIL there are two scores in golf that rank above an Eagle. They are an Albatross (3 under par) and a Condor (4 under par)
0wvgp TIL that the head of the German Nazi Intelligence service, Wilhelm Franz Canaris, deeply trusted by Hitler himself, had quietly worked to sabotage the Nazi war effort from the very first day, likely saving Western Europe.
E1KXp TIL the ‘Balloon Man’ had constipation since he was 2 and died with over 40lbs of feces in his colon. It’s 8ft long and currently preserved at the Mütter Museum in Philadelphia
kX5d TIL the Mortal Kombat character Shang Tsung was based on the Chinese Sorcerer Lo Pan from Big Trouble in Little China