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TIL the DC supervillain Brainiac was not named after the slang term for “an intellectual”. It was the other way around; the term originated with the supervillain’s name.

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Br7dy TIL Bobby Dunbar was a 4 year old boy who disappeared in 1914. After 8 months, authorities found a boy who they believed was him. Bobby’s parents, after some initial reluctance, agreed. The boy was taken from his home and given to them. In 2004, DNA testing proved he wasn’t the real Bobby.
oBKeY TIL of Krista and Tatiana Hogan, conjoined twins with a rare thalamic bridge, allowing them to share thoughts and feelings via a natural neural link.
loneB TIL Humans actually possess the protein (cryptochromes) needed for the detection of magnetic fields. But our brains doesn't seem to have any way to decode the information.
p8aVQ TIL after a Japanese Destroyer rammed the ship Naval Lieutenant John F. Kennedy was on during WW2, Kennedy swam for 5 hours towards an island while towing one of his badly burned crewman by clasping a scrap of the crewman's lifejacket between his teeth despite sustaining a back injury from the crash
Y58B TIL Ireland’s reputation for scholarship in the early medieval period was so good that many scholars traveled from Britain and the European mainland to study in Irish schools