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TIL the infamous "Year without a Summer" after the Tambora eruption in 1815 led directly to the invention of the bicycle, as people were forced to eat horses and other farm animals due to failing crops. They were called Laufmaschine or "dandy horses" and propelled by Flintstone-style foot power.

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1gnW TIL Speeding tickets in Finland are determined by the driver’s annual income and a man once received a $200,000 fine for driving 50 mph in a 25 mph zone.
EnA7 TIL that during WWII, 4 Koreans were conscripted into the Japanese army, to be taken prisoner and conscripted into the Soviet army, later to be taken prisoner and conscripted into the German army- finally being taken as prisoners of war by the American army.
ZLEY TIL of Kleindeutschland - literally a German town in the middle of New York City. It had the third largest German speaking population in the world until 1000 women and children were killed in a tragic fire. The population never recovered.
Egn1W TIL We call heavy armoured fighting vehicles Tanks to keep their nature secret. The British pretended that they were water carriers or water tanks.
9AV6 TIL that Theodore Roosevelt III was the only General on D-Day to land by sea with the first wave of troops. At 56, he was the oldest man in the invasion, and the only man to serve with his son on D-Day at Normandy