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TIL the classic Little Richard song “Tutti Frutti” is about anal sex.

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m18LO TIL folk singer Jackson C. Frank (1943-1999) only released one album and suffered from mental health issues which halted his career. Although he died destitute and unknown, his music has been cited as an influence and covered by such personages as Paul Simon, Nick Drake, Sandy Denny, and Bert Jansch
WkRr4 TIL that in 1999, Steve Jobs showed off a PlayStation 1 emulator as upcoming software for Macintosh computers. He even proudly demonstrated Crash Bandicoot 3 running on the emulator.
R7gN9 TIL: Pythagoras studied mathematics in Egypt and Babylon. Particularly notable as the Babylonians had the ‘Pythagorean theorem’ at least five hundred years before Greece.
W7kYY TIL about The Chapel of Our Lady of the Snows, a Catholic church carved into Antarctic ice and the southernmost place of worship in the world.
jNPoM TIL that the famous cover photo of The Beatles' album "HELP!", in which the four of them pose in flag semaphore to each make a letter, actually has them spelling "NUJV". The photographer said he thought it looked better.