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TIL the Hitchcock film North By Northwest (1959) is regarded by some to be "the first James Bond film", due to its similarities with splashily colorful settings, secret agents, a femme fatale, and an elegant, wisecracking leading man opposite a sinister yet strangely charming villain

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yQYO8 TIL of Frank Hayes, a jockey who won after suffering a fatal heart attack halfway through the race. Hayes technically still atop her back, making him the first, and thus far only, jockey known to have won a race after death.
1yKP TIL in 2013 Charlie Sheen appeared on an episode of Conan and said that he had laughed so hard while watching Chappelle Show, he experienced a ruptured hernia and was rushed to the hospital. The producers of Two and a Half Men assumed his hospitalization was a drug overdose and fired him
gbb4 TIL of the “Tiffany Problem”. Tiffany is a medieval name—short for Theophania—from the 12th century. Authors can’t use it in historical or fantasy fiction, however, because the name looks too modern. This is an example of how reality is sometimes too unrealistic.
LkWmQ TIL that Stephen Fry, renowned UK commentator and comedian, purchased a London cab so that he could use bus and taxi lanes to efficiently drive around London
VMB0B TIL Edward Bernays, nephew of Sigmund Freud, was not only responsible for bacon and eggs becoming an American breakfast staple, but was also responsible for women taking up smoking in protest in the 1920's, dubbing them "Torches Of Freedom".