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TIL that the NBA D (Developmental) league changed its name to the G league in 2017, with the G standing for Gatorade. This made it the first pro sports league named for an advertiser

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kvW TIL that the British used Concentration Camps over 40 years before the Germans
9kE7 TIL CERN scientists presented the Higgs Boson findings in Comic Sans
vPlQj TIL of the Batavia, a Dutch East India Company ship that wreaked off the west coast of Australia in 1629. A war between the survivors broke out, as a merchant onboard led a plot to murder and enslave the others and found a personal kingdom.
0d47L TIL 90% of workers in Iceland are in a union
ELkw Today I learned that the FBI issued a report 10 years ago on findings that the KKK and white supremacist groups had strategically infiltrated law enforcement agencies