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TIL "Monster Mash" re-entered the Hot 100 (at #37) for Halloween 2021. It had last charted in 1973.

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b6ZQN TIL that in 2017, several Maryland college students consumed so much alcohol at a house party, that the air in the house registered a reading of 0.01 on a breathalyzer.
E106V TIL Neil Armstrong resigned from NASA to take a teaching job, where he stayed for more than eight years—longer than his career as an astronaut. As part of a research group that included physician Henry Heimlich, he helped to design an artificial heart-lung system based on Apollo technology
rRrW4 TIL fine sugar particles are extremely flammable. So much that they caught a silo on fire in Georgia, 2008. The fire reached about 4000 degrees Fahrenheit.
XE4pE TIL "Parks and Recreation" was initially supposed to be a spin-off of "The Office" as requested by NBC. One idea was a broken copy machine from Scranton would break down in an episode of The Office and then end up in Pawnee, making the office equipment the spun-off character.
6ED8 TIL Queen Elizabeth II has been described as “addicted” to her golden-plated Wii console, and has expressed the wish to be a horse.