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TIL Actor Crispin Glover Wrote A Rap Song About Jackin’ Off.

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rRXLd TIL in 1941, with a lot of the Home Guard unarmed, Churchill wrote to the War Office that "every man must have a weapon of some sort, be it only a mace or a pike". The War Office took him literally and order 250,000 pikes, there was an uproar and none were ever issued.
EgEvd TIL It is a good idea not to post a picture of your keys online, someone is able to make a copy of them and gain access to your property just from a picture, always blur your photo if you have to
pwW8 TIL That other than humans, ravens are the only other animals that act silly when alone just for the sheer pleasure
Lk8pP TIL that Ireland has the oldest average age at first marriage of any country. The average Irish citizen gets married for the first time at age 35.
9YKPG TIL that during cold war, CIA conducted a $350 million cost secret project in 1974 called Project Azorian to recover a soviet submarine K-129 sunken in 1968 in the Pacific Ocean. It recovered only 1/3rd of the submarine, but the research lead to great advances in deep ocean drilling and mining.