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TIL Lin-Manuel Miranda made his TV acting debut with a small cameo in 'The Sopranos'

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X0gL8 TIL of the Bantu expansion, where Bantu people spread from modern day Cameroon to almost all of Sub-Saharan Africa.
jNWAR TIL Cato the Elder(a notoriously uptight grouch) expelled a man from the roman senate for embracing his wife in public and in front of their daughter. Cato went on to say that he never hugs his own wife, except during thunderstorms, and added that "thunderstorms make him a really happy man"
Lk7jP TIL: Benfords law is a logarithmic graph that can be found anywhere in the world. The IRS even uses it to detect tax fraud.
eyjn TIL there’s a casino in Las Vegas that only opens for eight hours once every two years just to keep its casino license from lapsing.
EgKad TIL That a German-born cartoonist created a comic strip where Mickey Mouse was sent to a concentration camp, while incarcerated in that camp.