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TIL Area 51 is just a cover. The really secret base is Area 52, the Tonopah Test Range 70 miles to the North, which is regarded by some as being the most secret covert Black Projects base in the USA.

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oodK TIL that www.milk.com is not owned by anyone in the dairy industry and is just one man posting random links and bits of prose. He refuses to sell it for less than $10000000
oBkx7 TIL three college basketball players who appeared in Hoosiers served a three game suspension after the NCAA ruled they had been paid for playing basketball
XOGR TIL “Mind your P’s and Q’s” actually meant keep in mind the amount of Pints and Quarts you had been drinking.
gM18D TIL the Crypt Keeper has Chucky’s eyes. FX technician Kevin Yagher created both puppets and reused Chucky’s clear blue eyes for the show
xDnk TIL In 2005 the Italian Prime Minister, Berlusconi, insulted Finnish cuisine and joked that Finns ate “marinated reindeer”. In 2008, Finland won an international pizza contest, beating Italy. The name of the winning pizza was “Pizza Berlusconi” which was made of smoked reindeer.