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TIL that John Belushi’s death was initially ruled a drug-related accident, but 2 months later a groupie named Catherine Smith admitted to the National Enquirer that she had injected Belushi with the lethal “speedball” injection. Smith served 15 months in prison for manslaughter.

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gMMZX TIL that the invention of Wifi involved a failed experiment by Australian scientists to detect exploding mini black holes the size of an atomic particle.
Kona TIL during the Japanese Occupation, a Japanese guard told Lee Kuan Yew to join a group of segregated men. Sensing something was wrong, he asked to go home and take his clothes, which the guard agreed. The men were taken the beach and shot. Lee went on to be one of the Founding Fathers of Singapore.
ge1D TIL FDR proposed a “Second Bill of Rights” that named a profitable job, a decent home, adequate medical care, a good education, and more as rights in the now-industrialized US.
ZpAb4 TIL that when Ronald Reagan was shot in 1981, hospital staff cut away his clothing. Finding a laminated card in his suit pocket, they discarded it into his shoe on the floor where it was left unattended. That card was the list of nuclear launch codes.
Egdoo TIL that in 1890 an anticlerical journalist (Leo Taxil) pulled off a 12-year prank to humiliate the Vatican involving: inventing a cult of satanic Freemasons, paying his typist to play the part of a Luciferian Templar Mistress, revealing it all to have been a hoax once the Vatican had endorsed it.