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TIL Happy Madison, Adam Sandler’s production company, has never released a film with a Rotten Tomatoes rating higher than 68. Four of their films have scored a 3 or less.

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w07o TIL of the Green children of Woolpit; a brother and sister with green skin who appeared by an English village and spoke in an unknown language.
4XnDo TIL that Nazi commander Walter Rauff escaped justice for the deaths of nearly 100,000 people during WWII. He was instrumental in the implementation of the Nazis' genocide by mobile gas chamber. He died in 1984 from a heart attack as a free man in Chile. His MI5 file said he never showed any remorse.
O5pe TIL that strawberries are in the same plant family as roses
YpnpA TIL the expression "Curiosity killed the cat" originally continued with "but satisfaction brought it back"
epP1E TIL about Pearl Hart, an infamous female outlaw who committed one of the last stagecoach robberies in history. Hart would become a local celebrity while imprisoned and ended up living until the age of 84, dying in 1955.