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TIL In 2 episodes of the first season of The Simpsons, Lou the cop, was colored yellow. It wasn’t till Season 2 that they kept him black.

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d8xmd TIL of the Lake Peigneur disaster in which an oil drill in a lake accidentally struck a salt mine, causing the entire lake to drain into the mine taking barges and an entire island with it.
KKJQ TIL in an episode of his show “Triumph of the Will” comedian Kenny Hotz successfully rallied the Jewish community in Toronto to finance and build a Mosque for Muslims as a token of peace between the two cultures.
d88Xj TiL there are the same number of inches in a furlong, as there are furlongs in the diameter of the Earth
kJ404 TIL in 2016 a man ate a ghost pepper in an eating contest and drank 6 glasses of water to cool off. He vomited so much he tore a hole in his esophagus and was rushed to a hospital where doctors found his left lung collapsed. He spent 23 days in the hospital and was sent home with a gastric tube.
0dALR TIL the last living grandchild of Queen Victoria, Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone, lived until 1981