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TIL that people in the Medieval era shared their bed with the entire family and even the occasional overnight visitor - only the very rich could afford more than one bed and poor people just slept on piles of cloth/hay on the floor.

W7pYB TIL that after Preston Mutanga recreated the trailer for "Spider-Man:Across the Spider-Verse” shot for shot with Lego style animation, the studio was so impressed they reached out. He animated the Lego sequence in the final film despite being 14 years old at the time only after finishing schoolwork
d8mWB TIL in 1923, a dog named Bobbie was separated from his owners and lost. Six months later, Bobbie appeared on their doorstep mangy and scrawny with feet worn to the bone; he walked over 2500 miles (4000 km) of plains, desert and mountains an average of approximately 14 miles (23 km) per day.
wLBJ1 TIL In 2006, Dustin Diamond asked listeners of Howard Stern's show to purchase a T-shirt reading "I paid $15.00 to save Screeech's house" (spelling "Screech" with an extra E for copyright reasons), hoping to sell 30,000 shirts in order to raise $250,000 and avoid foreclosure on his house
QJdop TIL the capital of North Korea, Pyongyang, plays a really eerie song across the whole city every day at 6 am, as well as one later on in the evening at 11 pm.
v1R9x TIL that Jehovah’s witnessed believe Satan was cast down to earth on October 1, 1914 and that only 144,000 will enter Heaven. The rest of the righteous will be resurrected and enjoy life after death in a cleansed planet after Armageddon.