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TIL excessive mouth breathing can cause crooked teeth and abnormal facial growth.

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l7j1N TIL about Mayhem, a Norwegian Black Metal band. In 1991, their vocalist at the time, Per "Dead" Ohlin, committed suicide. Their bassist, Euronymous, discovered Dead's body and took a photograph of the scene. Euronymous was then murdered 2 years later by another band member, Varg Vikernes.
1abxX TIL about Quaker and slave trader Zephaniah Kingsley, Jr. who advocated, and practiced, racial mixing as a way toward ending slavery. These views were tolerated in Spanish Florida. After Florida became a U.S. territory in 1821, he moved with his multiple "wives", children, and slaves to Haiti.
WkEZL TIL In 1944, by a huge coincidence, a crossword puzzle was printed with answers all containing D-Day operation "code names", which sent MI-5 into a panic thinking their invasion plans had been discovered.
GGvj TIL That Volkwagen Group owns all of the following brands: Audi, Bentley, Bugatti, Ducatti, Lamborghini, MAN, Porsche, Scania, SEAT, SKODA, and, of course, Volkswagen.
veZx TIL that Missing Children Europe, has a service that let’s webmasters replace their 404 error page by a custom one that puts the picture of a missing kid on the page. It’s accompanied by the text “PAGE NOT FOUND, NEITHER IS THIS KID”