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TIL Japanese Tentacle Porn is over 200 years old. One famous piece is named "The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife"

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jdLX TIL Charlie Sheen reached a settlement with Warner Bros. and was paid for NOT doing Two and a Half Men.
x5nb TIL that all GPS units sold in the civilian market have to be programmed to deactivate themselves if they detect they are traveling faster than 1200 MPH or are above 60,000 feet in altitude to prevent them being used in intercontinental ballistic missiles.
gMJG4 TIL Swaziland changed it's name to eSwatini in 2018 in part because the country's name was often confused with Switzerland
d8E0Q TIL that, despite being 10 times smaller than California, The Netherlands is the world's second largest exporter of agricultural and food products: In addition, Dutch farms are some of the most water-efficient in the world
KaEG 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.”