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TIL people used to carve turnips for Halloween, not pumpkins
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TIL that "Edmond de Belamy," a portrait generated by AI, sold for $432,500 in 2018. It was created using an algorithm trained on 15,000 portraits from the 14th to 19th centuries, and the "artist" signed it with a mathematical formula.
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TIL that after The Lion King was released, one hyena researcher sued Disney for defamation of character for portraying hyenas as villains.
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TIL the first episode of Gordon Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares tried saving a bookmaking front for the Bonanno crime family
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TIL that Stephen King considers his novel “Pet Sematary” his most disturbing one, and never intended to publish it.
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TIL that a couple took in three orphans and used them to get Extreme Makeover: Home Edition to build them a new house. After the house was built, they kicked the orphans out.