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TIL that in the middle of the Great Depression, a man placed an offer in an Ohio newspaper, saying: If you’re in trouble, write me. Many people sent him desperate letters, needing things like shoes, a coat, mercy, food, and to save their family from despair. And back came checks, under a pseudonym.

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eKQb TIL there is a Japanese NES game called “Holy Diver” in which you play as Randy Rhoads. In the game, your father is Emperor Ronnie James Dio, your mentor is Ozzy Osbourne, and for the final level you fuse with your brother, Zakk Wylde.
KO5OB TIL President Truman was opposed to McCarthyism, which was a means of deplatforming suspected communists without technically violating the first amendment, largely by barring them from employment. "In a free country, we punish men for the crimes they commit, but never for the opinions they have."
LOmd TIL in 1912 a group of investors were sold a 480 inch instead of a 480 foot skyscraper for $200,000 because nobody bothered to read the plans properly.
xpr5 TIL Kars4Kids, the car donation non-profit famous for its radio jingle, donates 100% of its proceeds exclusively to Jewish causes, including Jewish education and summer camps. It has been repeatedly fined for hiding this fact and for misleading its donors.
jB8p TIL When people are found dead in the wilderness with no outward signs of injury, they check their eardrums, and if they’re not intact, they know that the cause of death was lightning.