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TIL the members of post-hardcore band Fugazi refuse to be interviewed by Rolling Stone magazine unless they agree to print an issue with no alcohol/tobacco ads due to their straight edge beliefs

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jEaN TIL Yoga Jones, from Orange is the New Black, was the voice of Patti Mayonnaise.
VBEd4 TIL That the song "Winchester Cathedral" by The New Vaudeville Band topped the Billboard Charts twice in 1966, knocking out The Surpremes' "You Keep Me Hanging On" and The Beach Boys' "Good Vibrations" for the #1 spot
jADn TIL that North Korea has officially changed from a communist run system of government to the Monarchy system
QNWne TIL that in 2011, a man in Australia was convicted of child pornography after a digital copy of Victorian era erotic literature was found in his laptop
Mer47 TIL one way the Romans measured time was through Saeculum - the period of time from the moment an event occurred (for example the founding of a city) until the point in time that all people who were alive to see it happen were dead.