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TIL Espionage Act violations carry up to 10 years prison penalty per violation (per document)

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XQMk TIL in 1941 Harry Truman said “If we see that Germany is winning we ought to help Russia, and if Russia is winning we ought to help Germany, and that way let them kill as many as possible.”
J1DW8 TIL an air national guardsman was arrested by the FBI in April 2023 for allegedly applying to be a hitman on the parody site "Rent-a-Hitman" and for allegedly accepting his first (fake) assignment.
vVxR TIL 130lbs of dioxin were dumped on Vietnam during the Vietnam war. (3oz in New York’s water supply would be enough to wipe out its entire population.)
a87Xb TIL Beethoven in his 1822 composition Piano Sonata No. 32 wrote a powerful, heavily syncopated passage that has been described as boogie-woogie, jazz, and ragtime, a style which would not exist for another 70 years.
7rbaO TIL about Panasonic Jungle which was a portable platform for MMO titles Battlestar Galactica Online was one of the first games confirmed for the device (Stellar Dawn and RuneScape are the only other known confirmed titles).