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TIL The Netherlands has a comprehensive educational system for cyclists and drivers alike that begins in elementary school

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VBW1Q TIL that Judd Nelson, the actor who played John Bender in The Breakfast Club, almost got fired from the production for staying in character and harassing co-star Molly Ringwald off-camera
0dZAp TIL of Bess Flowers, known as the 'Queen of the Hollywood Extras' with over 800 acting credits
oR9vE TIL John urschel a former NFL player retired after 3 seasons and continued his career teaching vector calculus , trigonometry.
1vj4 TIL A British Man rescued 669 children destine for death camps from Nazis, arranged for them to have homes and smuggled them to Britain. Today is his 105th birthday
E1NKX TIL there was an experiment where three people, who each believed they were Jesus Christ, were made roommates at a psychiatric ward. At first, they argued over who was holiest and even fistfought. Eventually, each patient wrote the other two off as being crazy.