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TIL in the Middle Ages, Christians believed that Muslims worshipped a god named Termagant

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M7PEA TIL that many printers secretly add microscopic yellow tracking dots to every printed page, encoding the date, time, and printer's serial number to trace documents back to their source.
nWmeG TIL of the 8-minute phone call ☎️
XEaGk TIL organized crime directly affects 22% of the Italian population and 14.6% of the Italian GDP.
6E1g7 TIL Shrek dominated the 2002 BAFTA Awards: it received 6 nominations including Best Film and Best Supporting Actor (Eddie Murphy is the only actor to ever be nominated for a voice-over performance), and went to win the award for Best Adapted Screenplay, the only animated movie to do so.
KDr9 TIL After a power outage in Los Angeles in 1994, dozens of people starting calling the local observatory panicking about the “strange sky”. They were talking about the stars.