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TIL of Lauren Stratford (Wilson) who wrote a book claiming that she was in a Satanic cult in which she sacrificed her own child. After magazine reporters exposed her as never having a child, she changed her name and claimed to be a holocaust survivor, and was exposed again by the same magazine.

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nwkB TIL the inspiration for “Nacho Libre” was Fray Tormenta, a Mexican priest who turned to wrestling to raise money for an orphanage, but he himself got the idea and name from a 1963 film…about a priest who turns to wrestling to raise money for an orphanage.
R76A6 TIL Coca-Cola was purchased by Ernest Woodruff with other businessmen in 1919 for $25 million and first went public in 1919 at a price of $40 per share
XEZvk TIL Kurt Cobain almost banned Dave Grohl from playing at Nirvana's Unplugged because he didn't like how Grohl sounded playing drums with sticks at the rehearsals. Finally, Grohl perfomed using the wire brushes and sizzle sticks he recieved as an "early Christmas present" from the album's producer.
vPmOr TIL that humans are believed to be the only animals that can blush. That’s because embarrassment is a complicated emotion requiring understanding others’ opinions and other factors.
yQm8v TIL that the movie What the #$*! Do We (K)now!? (2004) was produced by Ramtha's School of Enlightenment. Ramtha is an alleged entity channelled by J.Z. Knight said to be over 35,000 years old and from Atlantis and Lemuria, where he was in charge of an army of over a million people.