TIL Americans streamed 57 billion minutes of The Office in 2020, 45% more than the second-place show Grey's Anatomy [Source]

TIL that During the French Revolution, Louis XVI ordered the arrest of a judge named D'Epremesnil. When the arresting officers came to the Palais de Justice, they did not know D'Epremesnil by sight, so all the judges stood up and cried "We are all D'Epremesnil!". No arrests were made that day. [Source]

TIL the botched restoration nicknamed "Monkey Christ" was deemed more culturally relevant than the original painting and preserved as-is. Tens of thousands of tourists visit the Spanish town of Borja every year to see it, and the restorer became a local celebrity until her passing in late 2025. [Source]

TIL that during the filming of Apocalypse Now (1979), lead actor Martin Sheen had a near fatal heart attack. This led to his brother, Joe Estevez, being a stand in for several scenes, as well as doing the voiceover narration for the film as he sounded nearly identical to his brother Martin [Source]

TIL in 2013, "Thrift Shop" by Macklemore & Ryan Lewis was able, as an independent song, to reach #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart without a major record label. It was only the second independent song to reach #1 in history at the time. [Source]

TIL that Sheb Wooley, famous for singing The Purple People Eater and voicing the Wilhelm Scream, also taught Roger Miller how to play guitar. [Source]

TIL that the person in charge of the Kamikaze defence of Okinawa, Admiral Matome Ugaki, flew the last Kamikaze flight himself. [Source]

TIL tea leaves have ~4% caffeine vs coffee beans at 0.9-2.6%. But coffee is brewed hotter and with more beans, so a cup of coffee still packs more caffeine than a cup of tea. [Source]

TIL Mississippi has more than 5 times as many fatal motor vehicle crashes (24.9 per 100,000 people) than Massachusetts(4.9). [Source]

TIL that Brittany, the region at the northwestern tip of France, has a Celtic culture distinct from the rest of France with their own Brythonic language. [Source]

TIL about Exploding Head Syndrome. It is a sleep disorder that causes a person to hear loud, imagined noises (explosions, bangs, screams, etc) or see light flashes before falling asleep [Source]

TIL that Australia is wider than the Moon. Australia's diameter is approximately 4,000 km, while the Moon's is only 3,474 km. [Source]

TIL that the largest class action lawsuit settlement was 206 billion dollars to be paid over 25 years. [Source]

TIL You shouldn’t rinse your mouth immediately after bushing your teeth. Fluoride strengthens tooth enamel, leaving it on the teeth for at least 15 minutes after brushing can help make the enamel more resistant to cavity-inducing acids. [Source]

TIL that sharks existed before trees. Sharks appeared about 400 million years ago, while the first trees appeared around 350 million years ago. [Source]

TIL that Harry S. Truman was the only combat veteran of the First World War to serve as President. [Source]

TIL Amy Hennig is a famous game developer celebrated for creating the narrative and cinematic foundations for the Legacy of Kain & Uncharted series. She directed and wrote Soul Reaver at Crystal Dynamics before joining Naughty Dog to lead the creator, director and writer of the Uncharted games [Source]

TIL that If you travel at 1g acceleration, you will be outside of the Milky Way in about 12 years. You will be outside the observable universe in about 54 years. And if you travel at 1.19g for 100 years, you could witness the heat death of the universe. [Source]

TIL China accelerated a magnetic levitation (maglev) train tech vehicle from 0-700 km/h (435 mph) in 2 seconds in 2025 [Source]

TIL the English word “set” has 430 different meanings listed in the Oxford English Dictionary, giving it the longest dictionary entry at around 60,000 words. [Source]

TIL At the height of the counter-reformation Pope Julius III made Innocenzo Del Monte, his illiterate boyfriend, a cardinal and kept trying to appoint him to advisory roles, ignoring all pushback. Even after his convictions for serious crimes, Del Monte managed to retain his position [Source]