Today

yV988 TIL while officially the ring of stars in the Flag of Europe are supposed to be the symbol of a perfect and equal union, one of the designers claimed they're based off the crown of stars the Virgin Mary is described as having in Book of Revelations
ANBAl TIL that 55% of the sugar produced in the US came from sugar beets. In North America, commercial production of sugar from sugar beets started at a farm in 1879 in Alvarado, California.
QN50L TIL that the oldest English-speaking settlement in Ontario is Moose Factory
b6bep TIL 80% of drivers believe their driving ability is above average
LQG0p TIL James Garfield is the only president of the United States to have made an original contribution to the field of mathematics. His proof of the Pythagorean theorem was published in the New England Journal of Education in 1876.
grb19 TIL that in Austria, Germany, Hong Kong, Sweden and Switzerland, incest is legal, but only between same-sex couples.
0dxWv TIL about Albert Negahnquet, or Dom Bede, the first Native American Catholic priest. Ordained in 1903, he studied four years in Rome, then returned to the U.S., wanting to educate the Potawatomi people about the Bible in their own language. In 1925, he renounced his vows to marry a Texan widow.
j6brE TIL that Iberian harvester ants are the first known species other than humans that clone members of a separate species
M7p0K TIL that the secret ingredient of Fritos is a very specific variety of hybridized corn made and designed specifically for Fritos
5VRXP TIL that the Palmer House is the third hotel with that name. The first lasted a year before it burned down in the great Chicago Fire. The second started construction only 13 days before the fire.
x6nv7 TIL of the Bobby Soxers. A term used to describe the subculture of Young women in the 1940’s. They were one of the first groups of young women that advertisers directly marketed too. They wore loose fitting socks and were fans of Frank Sinatra and similar newer popular artist/fads of the day.
4kWOo TIL American soul singer Donny Hathaway was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and prescribed with 14 different medications. He believed that white people were trying to kill him and connect his brain to a machine to steal his voice/music. In 1979, he committed suicide by jumping from a balcony