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TIL Comic Sans is based on the lettering in Watchmen

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mxrrM TIL there are more endangered snails than any other bird, mammal, reptile, amphibian and fish put together.
xp1 TIL that in the card game Euchre, played with a twenty-four card deck, the “Bauer” refers to the most powerful card in the trump suit, which is commonly taken to be the Jack. Coincidentally, Jack Bauer from the TV show is the best agent, in a show that has twenty-four episodes a season.
X0LOR TIL Dennis Rodman changed his image after seeing Wesley Snipes' portrayal of Simon Phoenix in the 1993 sci-fi action flick Demolition Man.
Lvvv TIL Valve originally approached Microsoft and other companies to create a game client with features like auto-updating and a better anti-cheat system but were refused. So Valve developed it themselves and made Steam.
a811y TIL Josef Goebbels wrote a three-part semi-autobiographical novel called “Michael: A German Destiny in Diary Form” which was published in 1929. The story is about a young man returning to Weimar Germany after serving in World War I.