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TIL 75% of the cars that Rolls Royce has ever produced are still on the road.

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won0J TIL that the school with the highest number of students in the world is the City Montessori School in India. It accommodates over 60,000 students daily.
9mom TIL Cats have a distinct temperature preference for their food, preferring food at around 38 °C which is similar to that of a fresh kill and routinely rejecting food presented cold (which would signal to the cat that the “prey” is long dead and therefore possibly toxic or decomposing).
E5po TIL that ABC aired Saving Private Ryan on Veteran’s day, unedited, every year starting in 2001. The practice ended in 2004 (the year of Nipplegate), when nearly 30% of ABC affiliate stations declined the broadcast, even after The Walt Disney Company offered to pay all FCC fines for language.
gYL9 TIL ‘Goodbye’ is a contraction of the phrase 'God be with you’, originating in 1580.
gMQ07 TIL that all the artists whose music was used in the Blues Brothers film kept the publishing rights and got all the income from the album sales. Dan & John only took the performers rights