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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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x6E10 TIL the largest national park in the world is Northeast Greenland National Park, also the world’s northernmost national park.
oRWKE TIL today in 1974 a U.S. Army soldier stole a Bell UH-1 helicopter and landed it on the South Lawn of the White House
epV7b TIL - Conplan 8888 A Real Government Zombie Apocalypse Contingency Plan
rRoZW TIL The Well Yes But Actually No meme comes from a misquoted line from the movie So You Want to Be a Pirate. The actual line said in the scene pictured by the meme is "good guess, but actually no" which is often heard as "well yes, but actually no" due to pronunciation.
nWLdb TIL in 1938 a New York wallet manufacturer placed a sample Social Security card inside each of its wallets sold nationwide to show that the cards fit. The card included the real Social Security number of a company secretary. Over the years more than 40,000 people used that same number as their own.