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TIL one of Leonardo Davinci's students painted a naked version of Mona Lisa.

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OA41 TIL ~900 Germans from the town of Demmin committed suicide in panic of the advancing Red Army. Mothers walked into rivers with a rock in a backpack and their babies in their arms. One man shot three young children, then their mothers, then his wife, then himself, but survived as a blind man.
b9G99 TIL that the Republic of Vanuatu (on a small Pacific island) has an underwater post office, and a post box on the rim of an active volcano
WkQNo TIL the word "synonym" has two synonyms - "poecilonym" and "polyonym"
Bgxgk TIL The bite out of the Apple logo is so you can tell it's an apple instead of a cherry
PYW5e TIL that Australian beer companies changed their bottles to prevent the extinction of a species of beetle