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TIL the song "How could this happen to me?" is about a drunk driver

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wa4P TIL in 2009 a Man Who Was an Expert on How to Avoid Being Kidnapped in Mexico Was Kidnapped in Mexico After Giving a Lecture On “How To Not Be Kidnapped in Mexico”
OooGe TIL that in 2007 a gorilla escaped from his exhibit, grabbed and mauled a nearby woman, and then attacked a restaurant. It was later revealed it was caused by the woman making eye contact and smiling at him several times a week, which zookeepers told her not to do
YNdG TIL By the time a person in the United States is 65 years old, he would have seen an estimated two million television commercials
OorZ7 TIL that Kazakhstan was the entire Soviet Union for 4 days
jaeX TIL of the Guinea Worm. In 1986, it infected 3.5 million people . Now it is down to 2 cases in 2016. It stands to be the second globally eradicated infectious disease in history, after smallpox.