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TIL In the winter of 1963-64, a team of FBI agents spent their days hunched over portable record players, struggling to decode a message that threatened the morality of America’s youth. It wasn’t from the Russians or Castro, but a band of white-bread Portland teenagers called The Kingsmen.

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yQxXl TIL that Marvel, DC, and other major comic book publishers adopted the "Comics Code" in 1954. Under the Code, criminals could not be depicted sympathetically, and police, judges, and government officials could not be shown as corrupt. The code was revised over time and was abandoned in the 2000s.
9m6p TIL that the US Air Force is the only branch of US military to ever directly fight the USSR. The conflict occurred over the Serbian town of Niš during WWII. Both sides mistook each other as Germans and both sides classified all reports of the battle as Top Secret.
Wbw8 TIL that there is a tiny spider that builds large, fake spiders in their web out of debris to serve as decoys.
e8xJ TIL that Bill Hader worked at a movie theater in college and was fired for telling rude customers how “Titanic” ended
yQgKJ TIL that sea otters hold hands while they sleep so they don't drift apart.