TIL the US Government once released its own video game to inform, educate, and recruit prospective soldiers.

TIL that before becoming famous as a General in the Union Army, William T. Sherman was the first superintendent of Louisiana State Seminary, which went on to become Louisiana State University.

TIL TIL: LaserDiscs were first marketed and sold in 1978 — and they were originally called DiscoVision!

TIL that Edgar Allan Poe became a writer after a failed military career. He enlisted in the US Army in 1827. He failed as a cadet at West Point, and declared his intention to become a writer.

TIL in 2019, the Netherlands became the first country to completely ban the Hells Angels biker gang. In July of 2022, the Supreme Court Of The Netherlands reaffirmed this ban and made it permanent.

TIL Dodi Fayed, Princess Diana’s partner, who also tragically died in the car crash with her, was the cousin of assassinated Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

TIL that the American Revolutionary War extended to the modern-day Bahamas where Continental Marines conducted the Marine Corps’ first ever amphibious landing in Nassau to seize gunpowder.

TIL there is a world championships for playing the air guitar. The motto of the competition is "Make Air Not War".

TIL Arkansas will not allow a write in ballot unless the write in cannidate notifies every counties board of elections.

TIL South Korea has the fourth highest suicide rate, in part due to elderly isolation.

TIL That the Million Dollar 1988 McDonalds record winner was 13, had his mom claim it, she squandered a good chunk of it, had her BF steal what was left, lost his mom 10 years later,

TIL Most incels do not commit violent acts, but some have asserted violent domination through mass shootings.

n criminal law, a conspiracy is an agreement between two or more people to commit a crime at some time in the future

Psychologists usually attribute belief in conspiracy theories to a number of psychopathological conditions such as paranoia, schizotypy, narcissism, and insecure attachment,

TIL that Duangphet Phromthep, the Captain of the Wild Boars Thai football team who were rescued from a flooded cave in 2018, took his own life in 2023

TIL that in Japan in 1980s, you could buy computer parts at cheap prices from shopping arcades and have them made into computers

TIL Of Shannon's number. This number states that the game of chess holds more move possibilities than the entire universe holds atoms.

TIL that in 2006, a woman named Edith Macefield turned down a reported offer of $1 million to sell her 108-year-old farmhouse to make way for a commercial development in the Ballard neighborhood

TIL that Mexico sent nearly 200 members of the military on a 20-day mission to support the Hurricane Katrina relief effort.

TIL When a person receives a kidney transplant they don’t take out the old kidneys, they just shove em to the side and leave em in there.