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TIL there were Walmarts in Germany

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dD6yj TIL a month prior to his 11th birthday, Peter Fonda accidentally shot himself in the abdomen and nearly died. Years later while taking LSD with John Lennon and George Harrison, he mentioned the incident, saying, "I know what it's like to be dead." This inspired The Beatles' song "She Said She Said"
1dMV TIL : There is a short German rhyme about procrastination that also rhymes when translated to English. “Morgen, morgen, nur nicht heute, sagen alle faulen leute.” in English means “Later, later, not today, all the lazy people say.”
w5Ao TIL Fanta was invented in Nazi Germany, due to the difficulty importing Coca Cola syrup
AvR7 TIL that there exists a correlation between pulling an all nighter and snapping out of depression
Brp4b TIL - When researchers from the University of Washington trapped and banded crows for an experiment, they wore caveman masks to hide their their identities. They could walk freely in the area without masks, but if they donned the masks again, the crows remembered them as evil and dive-bombed them.