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TIL that researchers believe humans have worn clothes for at least 170,000 years. They know this because pubic lice evolutionarily diverged from head lice about 170,000 years ago, and pubic lice need to live under clothing to survive.

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QN7gL TIL that the U.S. developed “Operation Cherry Blossom,” a plan to spread plague-infected fleas in Japan during World War II. Although never executed, it highlighted the lengths nations would go for biological warfare and sparked discussions on bioethics.
nW7yG TIL in 2002, John Muhammad (41) & Lee Malvo (17) went on a random killing spree known as the D.C. Sniper Attacks. However, their rampage actually began months before on the West Coast. They murdered 17 people (injured 10) in Washington, Arizona, Louisiana, Alabama, Georgia, Maryland, Virginia, & DC.
NXdgb TIL that in 546 BCE Argos and Sparta had an all-star "Battle of the 300 Champions," where both sides picked their best hoplites and agreed to fight to the death. The two surviving Argives thought they'd won and left, leaving behind a single injured Spartan on the field. He also claimed victory.
4Xx6X TIL Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife were assassinated on June 28th 1914, an event which led to the beginning of the war. Strangely, the Archduke's number plate read: A 111 118, a series that can be read as, Armistice 11 November '18.
KOG4w TIL: Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, discoverer of the X-Rays, chose the name himself and didn't want them to be named after him. It is used worldwide with exception to his native Germany where they are call Röntgenstrahlen (Röntgen-Ray)