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TIL in 1846, John Torrington perished during an expedition to find the Northwest Passage. When his corpse was exhumed 138 years later, it was almost perfectly preserved – eyes wide open, clothing intact, and limbs so flexible that moving him felt like moving someone unconscious rather than dead.

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kORrE TIL the Pan-American Coffee Bureau coined the phrase 'coffee break' in 1952, and ran a $2 million advertising campaign with the message that a 'coffee break' would give workers 'a needed moment of relaxation along with a caffeine jolt'
x6ya1 TIL a 17-year-old boy blew up a Starbucks in 2009 to emulate Tyler Durden.
OoWrX TIL the Zawiyyet al-Mayyiteen in Egypt, dubbed the “City of the Dead,” is one of the world’s largest cemeteries. Made up of numerous white conical domes that stretch out across a wide plain, the necropolis looks similar to waves in the sea. The cemetery was used by Muslims and Coptic Christians.
OoAmY TIL: Italian herbalist Pietro Andrae Matthioli declared the red tomato as a mandrake, a halogenic poisonous planet root long associated with sexual desires, hallucinations and temptation because the tomato was similar looking to nightshade, an actual poisonous fruit.
BrEwr TIL of The Great Chinese Famine where 30 million+ people died due to Mao's policies and natural disasters. With cannibalism and madness affecting the population, food aid from the Red Cross was declined. To this day it is referred to in China as the Three Years of Natural Disasters.