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TIL porn movie Debbie Does Dallas (1978) is in the United States public domain because copyright notices were absent in the distribued copies

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LBad T.I.L. that a 61yr. old U.S. Navy vet Michael Boatwright was found unconscious in a motel room. When he woke up he only spoke Swedish instead of his native language English. He also insisted that he was a swede named Johan Ek and threw up when he saw his own reflection, in a state of confusion.
YpxxA TIL that Liberia, Myanmar and the United States of America are the only 3 countries not using the metric system.
4KlJ TIL Arnold made $75,000 for his role in Terminator, but in Terminator 2 he made $15,000,000 7 years later.
4XKZR TIL in one of hundreds of his dangerous visits to the Chernobyl disaster site, nuclear inspector Artur Korneyev was able to take a photo of himself in 1996 near the Elephant Foot, a radioactive mass that initially gave off more than 10,000 roentgens an hour
KOEvB TIL there was a blizzard in Iran in 1972 so deadly that some villages had no survivors. Snow got as high as 26 feet.