Today

0dxyM TIL that there were different "fonts" used in the days of handwritten documents and the one you used indicated your social status or even gender
j6bkp TIL that the famous ancient complaint letter to copper merchant Ea-nāṣir was not the only one. In his house there were a mass of them, including by people named Arbituram, Appa, Imgur-Sin, Illsu-Elsatsu and Ili-idinnam.
M7pEB TIL Atari's legal team made up a fictitious lawsuit in order to acquire the blueprint/source-code for Nintendo's CIC anti-piracy chip from the U.S. Patent Office.
5VRyD TIL that apparently in the 16th century an Italian friar by the name of Francesco Calcagno was executed for practising and promoting sodomy, as well as claiming that Jesus had been in a homosexual relationship with Saint John.
x6n00 TIL that on December 6 1990, an MB-326 military jet of the Italian Air Force crashed into a school building at Casalecchio di Reno, near Bologna, Italy, killing 12 students and injuring 88 other students and staff. The pilot managed to eject before the crash.
4kWyb TIL that Muhammad Ali (as Cassius Clay) recorded and released a version of "Stand By Me" as a single in 1964, charting on the Billboard "Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles".
nWMKd TIL in 2002 Eminem settled a lawsuit by paying $100,000 (roughly £70,000) to a man named John Guerra after Em reportedly pulled out an unloaded gun and hit Guerra in the face in response to seeing Guerra kiss his then-wife in the parking lot of a nightclub in 2000.
9wXyB TIL in 2015 Cheerios (labeled Gluten Free) were recalled, because they in fact contained gluten | "Many in the celiac disease community [had] gotten sick from the contaminated Cheerios"
W7b4B TIL that an enzyme called pectinase is the reason for canned oranges not having any pith or strings.
R5yK1 TIL that the king of Thailand, Rama X, the richest monarch in the world and the longest birth name of any current monarch: Vajiralongkorn Boromchakrayadisorn Santatiwong Thewetthamrongsuboribal Abhikkunupakornmahitaladulyadej Bhumibolnaretwarangkun Kittisirisombunsawangwat Boromkhattiyarajakumarn.
wo407 TIL that the reason strong alcoholic drinks are called 'spirits' is because early Middle Eastern alchemists saw the 'vapour' emited during the distillation process as being the 'soul/essence/spirit' of the base compound which was being fermented.
69wyw TIL In 1972, Adelaide, South Australia, two gay men were attacked and thrown in a river. One drowned while the other was rescued by a passing motorist named Bevan Spencer von Einem. Later, von Einem would be convicted of a separate murder and is suspected of committing several others.