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TIL that the Palace of Westminster was once home to a series of interwoven tapestries depicting stories from the Trojan War. Originally made in 1475, the tapestries were sold off in 1820 and were subsequently lost.

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WkYad TIL that Enligsh is the universal “language of the skies”. All pilots must learn and speak English, regardless of their origin.
kJoeB TIL that television journalist Deborah Norville was notified by an eagle-eyed TV viewer that she had a lump on her neck and advised to see a doctor. That lump was a cancerous thyroid nodule which Norville needed surgery to remove.
4KLJ TIL that when Frank Morgan, the man that played the Wizard in The Wizard of Oz, was picking out a jacket to use for his role as the Wizard, he turned out one of the pockets of the jacket and discovered a label indicating that the coat had once belonged to Oz author L. Frank Baum.
vMDD TIL the pilot episode of LOST was so expensive (~$14 million) that the network president was fired for green-lighting it
XE5eD TIL The World's Longest Continuously Running Experiment began in 1927 at the University of Queensland Brisbane testing the viscosity of pitch - 9 drops have formed since it began. The last one in April 2014.