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TIL in a review/comparison for the video games "Infamous" and "Prototype", Yahtzee Croshaw of Zero Punctuation ruled a tie for quality and jokingly said that a tiebreaker would involve the developers dressing up the competing game's protagonist in drag. Both development teams complied.

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MeEA8 TIL, that the murder of Rebecca Schaeffer. A 21 year old actress who was shot at her front door by an obsessed fan and later died enacted the Nation’s first anti-stalking Law’s in 1990. In 1994, the ‘Driver’s Privacy Protection Act’ made it illegal to release people’s private addresses.
m6wE TIL that the Disney movie “Moana” had to change its title in Italy to “Oceania” because of a famous pornstar with the same name
4kAyg TIL someone bought Lee Harvey Oswald’s Life Insurance for $80K
J1Q7m TIL: Astronauts who come back from the moon have to go through customs
PWLe TIL that the average net worth for an African American family is $4,955…less than the average family has in India.