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TIL that computer scientist and mathematician, Alan Turing, died after biting into an apple laced with cyanide. It was rumored that the Apple Inc. logo had a bite taken from it to represent the poison apple. The designer has said, it wasn’t, but “It’s a wonderful urban legend.”

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BgQxr TIL that although it was once a common practice, among Europe's current kings, queens and heirs apparent, only Alois, Hereditary Prince of Liechtenstein married a member of a foreign dynasty, as did the abdicated Juan Carlos I of Spain.
yPxV TIL Before federal wiretapping caught Eliot Spitzer in a prostitution scandal in early 2008, he had nearly exposed the lending practices that led to the 2008 financial crisis when he was Attorney General of New York. He was also known as the “sheriff of Wall Street” at the time.
VBQam TIL in 1985, Japan Airlines flight 123 crashed and over 500 people were killed. The plane's aft pressure bulkhead was damaged seven years prior, but was not repaired correctly. When it failed, the crew lost all control of the plane. Only four people survived.
8aoKa TIL Microsoft's iconic Solitaire game for Windows was developed in 1988 by then intern Wes Cherry out of boredom. He received no royalties.
4kbR5 TIL that California Community Colleges is the largest university system in the United States with 1.8 million students. But this is still less than one third of the largest in the world - Indira Gandhi National Open University in India, with 7.1 million.