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TIL that before alarm clocks were invented, there was a profession called a knocker-up, which involved going from client to client and tapping on their windows (or banging on their doors) with long sticks until they were awake. It lasted into the 1920s.

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M7jEW TIL that the Yungas Road is a Bolivian road so dangerous it used to kill up to 300 drivers a year before a safer alternative was finished in 2006. It's only about 3 meters wide, prone to rockfalls, and has no guardrails even though it has cliffs over 600 meters high.
rRK71 TIL Queen Victoria was raised under a strict system called the Kensington System,created by her mother and Sir John Conroy.Her first two requests, upon her accession, were that she should be allowed an hour by herself,and that her bed should be removed from her mother's room. She also banned Conroy.
oBMbr TIL it is rumored that Pablo Escobar committed suicide. It was never confirmed that a police officer fired the fatal shot through his ear. His brothers insisted "he would say to me every day that if he was really cornered without a way out, he would 'shoot himself through the ear'"
epEjL TIL Before Washington, DC became the capital of the US, George Washington and John Adams lived in the President's House in Philadelphia during their presidencies. Due to confusion over its location, it was accidentally demolished in 1951. A public toilet was built over the site it once stood.
7rZ5M TIL the first movie in color was made already in 1902, the earliest color moving images ever made pre-dating 'Kinemacolor' by eight years. A British cinematographer, Edward Turner's footage of his children was found in a discovery in The National Media Museum in Bradford.