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TIL that Daniel ‘Rudy’ Ruettiger, the football player who is the basis of the classic sports film “Rudy”, ran a pump and dump scheme and was charged with stock fraud charges and settled for $4.5M.

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oDxK TIL: Harvard study found that Antioxidants had very little to no effect health benefits.
16rV4 TIL in 2008, a panda at a zoo in southern China attacked a man who wanted a cuddle. “Yangyang was so cute and I just wanted to cuddle him,” Liu was quoted as saying from his hospital bed.
WoVo TIL that after extensive analysis of charts, currents, video, photographs, interviews, and witness statements it was shown that the Star Princess, a Princess Cruise Ship, did not leave three men adrift in the sea.
VBgAm TIL one of the first things ever sold online was pizza. PizzaNet, owned and operated by Pizza Hut, was created in 1994 and serviced Santa Cruz, California. It was one of the first few thousand on the web. The site is still running today.
ADGOB TIL For every 200 million sperm in each human ejaculation, 2 million make it into the cervix, 1 million make it into the uterus, 10,000 make it to the top of the organ, 5,000 enter the uterotubal junction, 1000 enter the Fallopian tube, 200 reach the egg and only 1 enters the egg to fertilize it.