TIL About the bumpy snailfish (Careproctus colliculi), a fish newly discovered off the coast of California [Source]

TIL On 30 December 1999, Beatle George Harrison and his wife, Olivia, were brutally attacked in their home, Friar Park, by an intruder named Michael Abram which resulted in George suffering 40 stab wounds, one narrowly missing his heart. [Source]

TIL that in 2018 there was a diplomatic spat between India and Pakistan due to accusations that diplomats were ringing each other's doorbells at 3.00am, then running away. [Source]

TIL that the last known individual dinosaur was a triceratops that lived as recently as several thousand years before the K–Pg extinction event. No younger dinosaur fossils have yet been found. [Source]

TIL that Julius Yego, who famously taught himself Javelin through the internet, is still competing at the elite level 11 years after his famous World Championship win in 2015. At the 2025 World Championships he made it to the final and placed 6th. [Source]

TIL Richard of Shrewsbury was knighted before 2 years old, married at 4, widowed at 8, then likely murdered at 9. [Source]

TIL in 2019 Indian magician Chanchal Lahiri drowned in the Hooghly River while attempting a Houdini trick, he was lowered into the water while shackled but did not emerge, his body was found the next day [Source]

TIL the son of Queen Victoria's 8th son was an important figure in the Nazi party and a member of Reichstag from 1936 to 1945 [Source]

TIL that female stoats become reproductively mature at 15 days old, while they're still suckling and blind. Adult males will mate with said immature females, which then successfully give birth next year. [Source]

TIL that the Samurai era in Japan and the American Wild West were happening at the same time. [Source]

TIL: The Great Khan had a silver tree that dispensed 4 types of alcohol so that he never ran out. [Source]

TIL that after Malcolm X’s assassination, the Audubon Ballroom was cleaned up and a party was held later that same night. [Source]

TIL Tamzin Merchant was originally cast to play Danaerys Targaryen in the unaired pilot of Game of Thrones. She was later replaced by Emilia Clarke when the pilot was poorly received and subsequently remade. [Source]

TIL that Amazon patented a wristband in 2018 that was designed to track warehouse workers’ hand movements in real time and direct them via vibrations. [Source]

TIL that the original iPhone that Steve Jobs famously showed on stage in 2007 barely worked and could only just get through the keynote. A stable, final version of the iPhone was not developed until just weeks before global release. [Source]

TIL that Dolly the Sheep was NOT the first cloned animal. Scientists had been cloning amphibians like frogs since the 1950s, 40 years before Dolly was born. [Source]

TIL that Hot Wheels and Matchbox — the two biggest rival toy car brands — are actually both owned by Mattel. [Source]

TIL that over third of people who called the Massachusetts Problem Gambling Hotline in 2023 were calling because they were having a technical problem with their betting apps and mistakenly believed that calling the Mass hotline would get them IT help. [Source]

TIL that the original pilot for “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” (which later became “Charlie Has Cancer”) was shot on handheld camcorders on a budget of $200, though Charlie Day has since claimed it was essentially filmed for free. The show was later picked up by FX and has aired for 2 decades. [Source]

TIL the 2015 short "Kung Fury" had a full-length theatrical sequel that included Michael Fassbender and Arnold Schwarzenegger. It finished filming in 2019 but has been stuck in post-production ever since. [Source]

TIL In 1651, Jan De Doot, a man who disliked surgeons decided to take a knife and remove his own bladder stone with just some help from his brother. The feat made him famous across the Netherlands and he even had his portrait painted with him holding the egg-sized stone, which he had coated in gold [Source]