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TIL Tata Family's wealth comes from the 1860s.

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7jrX TIL Fox ran a contest for fans to guess Who Shot Mr. Burns and win a once-in-a-lifetime chance to be animated in the show. The ‘winner’ actually got the answer wrong, didn’t watch the Simpsons and took cash instead of being animated.
JvNl TIL a senator from Florida “went on vacation” in the middle of his term, never came back, and eventually turned up homeless and insane in the streets of Detroit
gMr97 Ever since Morpheus explained how the machines use humans as batteries in The Matrix, we’ve been fascinated by the idea. But can the human body actually generate enough current to do anything useful? We decided to find out, by asking experts how long it would take a human brain to charge an iPhone.
QPg9 TIL that an Anti-Gay Preacher went to Iceland to hold a sermon. Icelanders reserved all of his tickets and then didn’t show up.
vPK74 TIL Half-Life 2 has a burnt corpse model textured using photos of a real dead and badly burnt body