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TIL "call of the void" is that feeling when you think for a second about steering into oncoming traffic or jumping off a cliff for no reason although you would never do it.

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87oL TIL the first and the last British soldiers to die in WWI are coincidentally buried only 15 feet apart. In the 4 year period between their deaths, nearly a million other British/Commonwealth troops died.
p8BNe TIL that a magazine called Continuum constantly published articles denouncing the HIV/AIDs as a hoax from 1992 until 2001, before ceasing its publication because all its contributors died from AIDs-defining clinical conditions.
awVyb TIL there is an elephant named Koshik who spent much of his youth at Everland Zoo in South Korea where he learned to speak 5 words of Korean due to the fact he lacked social interactions with his own species and was lonely.
QJmg6 TIL A woman put over a million miles on her Hyundai Elantra and was given a special badge and a brand new car
6odW TIL Taking it in turns to pay for meals makes you happier than splitting the bill