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TIL Kylie Jenner lost a trade mark battle against international pop star Kylie Minogue in 2017. Jenner was informed that Minogue had owned the Kylie.com domain since 1996, a year before Jenner was even born.

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BrAXW TIL that the cleanest things ever made on Earth were the core sample collection tubes for the Perseverance Rover which landed on Mars earlier this year to find life there.
GM8E TIL That Winter Storms Are Not Named by the National Weather Service (There’s No Official Naming System)- Instead The Weather Channel Does, After Their Marketing Department Saw An Opportunity in Late 2011
b9EP4 TIL there is ice on the surface of Mercury despite it being the closest planet to the sun in our solar system and therefore one of the hottest
xEv1 TIL that Craig Ferguson (Late Late Show host) and Peter Capaldi (new doctor who) were together on a band called “The Bastards from Hell”
1aRv8 TIL that British doctors performed a covert study of the length of time chocolates last on nurses' stations in hospitals, published in the British Medical Journal. They found that the 'decay rate' of the chocolates follows an exponential decay pattern with a half-life of 99 minutes.