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TIL That Jamie Lee Curtis is a Baroness (styled The Right Honourable The Lady Haden-Guest).

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vvO4 TIL there are no current statistics on religion in Tanzania. Home to many faiths, its census hasn’t asked about religion since 1967 in order to avoid fights over which was the biggest.
69Bp7 TIL John B Goodenough is widely credited with the identification and development of the lithium-ion battery
VBRRG TIL that horses went extinct in North America about 10,000 years ago. They were then reintroduced to the continent by the Spanish as early as the 1550s.
aKBy TIL that anyone sworn into any statewide or county office or judgeship in Kentucky must declare under oath that he or she has not participated in, acted as a second or otherwise assisted in a duel.
4k9Bw TIL: Miami, Florida's Government Center metro station has a "ghost platform" for an East-West Metrorail line that was never built.