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TIL O.J. Simpson was unanimously found guilty in civil court trial in 1997. The jury ruled against Simpson on each of the eight technical questions of liability it was asked to consider, questions that Simpson had avoided to answer at his first trial in criminal court.

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dJn9 TIL there is a deadly fungus plague spreading around the world that is causing a mass extinction among amphibians.
R59x9 TIL Rodin, the famed sculptor, didn’t actually sculpt in marble. He made sand models and his assistants, namely Camille Claudel, made the art we love.
grwl7 TIL that Hershey's kisses have been around since 1907
p8xQ8 TIL of Friedrich Wilhelm Voight, a German man who in 1906 impersonated a Prussian military officer and rounded up a group of soldiers in order to steal over 4,000 marks from the municipal treasury of Köpenick
8epWX TIL Astronauts mixed concrete on the space station for the first time in 2019. Thanks to a lack of gravity-induced sedimentation, the cement's density was more uniform, making it stronger. But it also developed large internal air pockets, making it more porous.