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TIL Danger Mouse and Banksy replaced 500 copies of Paris Hilton’s album with alternate versions that contained a whole number of mockery about her, including fake song names such as, “Why Am I Famous” and “What Have I Done”

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EgmAd TIL the season 6 finale of House was filmed entirely with Canon EOS 5D DSLR cameras, primarily designed for still-picture photographs, but one of the first models to include high-definition video recording capability.
5YQek TIL American Noah Webster is primarily responsible for the differences between American and British spelling, but many of his changes never stuck, such as medicine=medicin, ache=ake, soup=soop, tongue=tung, women=wimmen, and weather=wether
X0JvP TIL: That the singer Gabrielle covers her eye because of ptosis, the drooping of one eyelid, a condition she has had since childhood. In public, she covers her eye with sunglasses, an eyepatch, a hat or hair.
J1prj TIL Damon Albarn, the lead singer of Blur, is also the co-creator and lead singer of Gorillaz
RmZ9 TIL that apple seeds contain cyanide. Eating 20 apple cores will kill an adult, while eating less can result in paralysis, coma, and brain damage.