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TIL of Frasier the Sensuous Lion. He was an 18 y.o. lion (human equivalent of 80) who was adopted by a pride of females at an animal park. He was blind, had no teeth, and could barely walk, but ended up siring 35 cubs.

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nYRd TIL that there was a real-life gangster nicknamed Fat Tony who died in a Springfield.
R5pJQ TIL that Barry Goldwater and John F. Kennedy were close friends. They planned to hold a series of Lincoln-Douglas style debates across the country in the 1964 presidental election. Goldwater was greatly dissapointed at Kennedy's assassination and that his opponent would not be Kennedy.
rX1 TIL there was a Finnish sniper called “The White Death” in WWII who has the largest confirmed kill count in history.
PYo6g TIL Dark chocolate contains more iron per ounce than beef sirloin.
5YYQr TIL from 1929 to 1934 when the Hays Code began to be enforced, Hollywood made movies that were full of violence, sex, strong female characters, and even homosexuality. One study showed that of the 440 films produced in 1932–33, 352 had "some sex slant"