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TIL that Wayne Gretzky and John Candy bought the Toronto Argonauts in 1991. They paid Raghib Ismail, the presumptive #1 overall NFL drat pick, a record amount to instead play in the CFL.

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jNowR TIL in 2014, an amateur detective linked 3 mysterious deaths in London to each other, took his evidence to the UK police, and claimed there was serial killer on the loose. They didn't believe him. The police eventually caught serial killer Stephen Port after his 4th murder.
p8LOO TIL of Mathew Charles Lamb. After killing two people in a shooting spree, he was found not guilty by reason of insanity. He then joined the Rhodesian Army after his psychiatric treatment was complete.
VBky4 TIL about Don‘s Plum, the movie Leonardo Di Caprio fought against in court and won which has stopped its release to the big screen. If however you want to see it, you can mail the writer at freedonsplum@gmail.com and he’ll happily provide you with an URL to watch the movie with a very misogynist Leo
5YADp TIL one of Hitler's earliest political endeavors was an unprecedented connected road network throughout Germany in order for Germans to "explore and appreciate" their country. It set the foundation for modern-day highway networks.
awrMb TIL of Koko the Gorilla. She knew 2,000 words of spoken English and could form 1,000 different signs of Gorilla Sign Language. One day she told her mentor that she wanted to be a mother, so she gave her a kitten who Koko named. After it died, Koko expressed grief.