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TIL that the first first-person shooter, Maze, was created in 1973. It included features like corner peeking, AI bots, and 8-player online play. In fact, it was so popular that DARPA had to ban it from ARPANET because half of all network activity for a month was between players at MIT and Stanford.

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NX58J TIL Edward G. Robinson spoke seven languages and used atleast six of them to deliver anti-Nazi speeches from London during the Second World War. Additionally Robinson was the first movie star to entertain the troops in Normandy, crossing the channel less than a month after the invasion.
v1jaj TIL - that during WW1, the British created a campaign to shame men into enlisting. Women would hand out White Feathers to men not in uniform and berate them as cowards. The it was so successful that the government had to create badges for men in critical occupations so they would not be harassed.
rRxVd TIL that Marlon Brando improvised the orange peel scene in the Godfather Part 1. Coppola revealed: "“[Brando] said, ‘Here’s how I play with kids,’ and took an orange peel, cut it into pieces that looked like fangs and slipped them into his mouth.”
K1la TIL that in 1906 when Dr. Alois Alzheimer presented his groundbreaking research on the disease which would later be known as Alzheimer’s Disease, the audience asked zero questions and made zero comments because they simply wanted to hear the next lecture (which was about compulsive masturbation)
wLQO1 TIL That Facebook lied about high video view counts to attract investors and charge higher premiums for hosting videos, and is the reason that sites like Cracked, College Humor, and Funny or Die nearly went out of business