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TIL about Yoshio Nakamura. An American Citizen of Japanese decent who was sent to an interment camp during WWII but enlisted in the army and fought in Italy to break the German line. He used his GI bill to earn a degree to become a teacher but school districts wouldn't hire him due to his heritage.

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Eg0Px TIL that the 1971 Doors song "Riders on the Storm" partially references an American hitchhiking killer, Billy "Cockeyed" Cook in its lyrics. In 1950-51, Cook murdered six people, including a family of five, on a 22-day rampage between Missouri and California.
mdwx TIL That Jordan Belfort’s (the Wolf of Wall Street) Private Investigator played himself in the 2013 film
6EjvY TIL That cryonic preservation (freezing a corpse hoping that it can be revived in the future) is prohibited in France and British Columbia, Canada. In France, cryonics is not a legal mode of body disposal, and in BC, sale of arrangements for cryonic preservation has been prohibited since 2015.
WbDA TIL the first television talk show hosted by an African American woman was Della, with Della Reese. It ran for 197 episodes from 1969 to 1970 on RKO, and all episodes are currently lost.
kOY55 TIL The shortest run for a TV series was 11 minutes. In 1969, a sketch show called Turn-On, by the creator of Laugh-In, was deemed so risqué that at the 1st commercial break of the 1st episode, a network announced it would no longer play the show and instead aired organ music over a black screen.