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Today I learned that the Beatles included occultist Aleister Crowley among the celebrities on their Sgt Pepper album cover

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wLaJ TIL A 14-year-old, Tony Hansberry came up with a radically new procedure, which involved sewing up the patients with a vertical endo stitch instead of a horizontal one. doctors were so impressed that they tested it out on their patients. The result: It reduced recovery time, complications and pain.
b4xj TIL Clarence Elkins was denied an appeal on rape/murder charges despite proving the DNA didn’t match. He then did his own investigation, and found the real killer. The prosecutor still refused to overturn the conviction until the atty general publicly shamed him.
M7NAA TIL Judge Judy was, between her lawyer and TV salaries, for a while the highest paid TV star - and authored a book called Don't Pee on My Leg and Tell Me It's Raining
RXBa TIL 20,000 year-old fossilized human footprints were discovered in Australia which indicate the man who made them was running at the speed of a modern Olympic sprinter, barefoot, in sand.
6WVX TIL that China kidnapped a 6 year old boy after he was named second highest Tibetan Lama. His whereabouts are still unknown