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TIL that at 9:55 pm every night many soldiers on both sides of WWII in Europe tuned their radios to the same station (the German-controlled Radio Belgrade) to listen to a nightly broadcast of the wistful love song "Lili Marleen", which had been virtually unknown before the war

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VMGvD TIL that director Fritz Lang had a meeting with Goebbels
p8nR4 TIL that Coca-Cola is the number one soft drink in the world in every country except for four countries, one being Cuba, another is North Korea, and the last is Myanmar, where they just entered the market. The final and most interesting is Scotland where Irn Bru reigns supreme.
JYQV1 TIL The reason dogs look at you while they poop is because they’re looking for your protection while they’re in their most vulnerable time.
1ypV TIL that there is an “everlasting lightning storm” that rages continuously for up to 10 hours a night, in exactly the same place, 260 nights a year
Wk5Y8 TIL not only was Sterling Holloway Jr. the voice actor of the snake Kaa in the 1967 “The Jungle Book” and the Cheshire Cat in the 1951 “Alice in Wonderland”, but most famously he was the original voice of Pooh from “Winnie the Pooh”.