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TIL 26 of 36 missing children were found after being featured in Soul Asylum’s “Runaway Train” video.

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JYM1B TIL the name of the mall in Back to the Future changed from Twin Pines Mall to Lone Pine Mall in later scenes because Marty hit a tree on Old Man Peabody's farm shortly after arriving in 1955.
695RX TIL Beyoncé got her name from her mother's maiden name.
KO9K4 TIL according to The Police drummer Stewart Copeland, Sting spent years trying to find rhymes for "every little thing she does is magic", only able to come up with "tragic" and "pelagic".
79Mr TIL that the founder of modern Saudi Arabia, Ibn Saud, had 45 sons, and almost 100 children total. The next king will be the first king that isn’t Ibn Saud’s direct son.
oaLA TIL In 1972, a British scientist sounded the alarm that sugar – and not fat – was the greatest danger to our health. But his findings were ridiculed and his reputation ruined.