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TIL Dr Zoiberg was in a superman comic.

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VMvn0 TIL before the Nazis adopted the Swastika in the West, it was used by Rudyard Kipling, The 45th Infantry Division of the United States Army, Carlsberg Group, the Finnish Air Force, Boy Scouts in Britain, The Royal Air Force's 273 Squadron, the Arizona Department of Transportation and many others.
ve1r TIL that in 2001, an LA artist impersonated a Caltrans worker, forged an invoice, used a hidden ladder, and installed his own freeway sign in the presence of another highway crew. Nobody noticed, he was never charged, and the sign remained for over eight years.
78oXb TIL that Americans actually started using the dating system (mm/dd/yyyy) from the UK who used it before the 20th century.
lG7V TIL It literally rains diamonds on Saturn and Jupiter
gr647 TIL about the Vectrex, a video game console released in November 1982 in North America that came with its own 9 inch monochrome CRT monitor, detachable wired controller, had vector-based graphics, and games for it came with translucent colorful overlays for the screen. The initial price was $199.