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TIL Elvis Presley recieved a ‘C’ in his 8th grade music class when his teacher told him he “had no aptitude for singing”

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gnD8 TIL: NASA has found that under certain conditions the moon rings like a bell.
0aW1 TIL that monosodium glutamate (MSG) has no extraordinary negative effect on the human body, contrary to common perception
KYol6 TIL: There is a serial killer who was also an extra in various movies and TV shows such as Breaking Bad. Clifton Bloomfield, A bully since high school, he went on a crime spree, was jailed for 14 years, and after release in 2002 he murdered 5 people before and during the filming of Breaking Bad.
b9vO9 TIL that "The Saga Begins," Weird Al Yankovic's parody of the song "American Pie" where he lays out the plot of Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, was written almost entirely based on internet spoilers.
4k4GN TIL Marino Faliero, the only Doge of Venice in history to have been executed for a coup attempt, was erased from all official documentation and had his portrait in the Doge’s Palace painted over with a black cloth.