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TIL Joe Jamail was a billionaire Texas attorney, infamous in legal circles for his aggressive nature and colorful vulgarities (i.e. "you could gag a maggot off a meat-wagon"). He earned internet notoriety for a deposition video where he tried to fight the opposing counsel and the witness.

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An5B TIL A D.A.R.E Cop was caught selling 414 Ecstasy Pills and 50 Bottles of Ketamine to an undercover cop from a different town. The Dare Cop was also a son of a Former Police Captain and lived in a house owned by the retired Police Captain.
OGoAL TIL about the Kanem–Bornu Empire, which originated around 700 AD, and lasted as the Bornu Empire until 1900. Remnants of it still exist even today as traditional states within Nigeria.
X0rVR TIL: Young children make 'scale errors' where they genuinely try to use an object that is inappropriately sized. Such as trying to sit and slide down a toy slide. And it's inversely related to pretend play
K4Kw TIL Mark Zuckerberg once advised that tech companies should never hire anyone over 30, stating, “Young people are just smarter.”
dVx9 TIL Just 3 years after the Civil War a man walked 1400 miles through the former Confederate states with a Union flag to disprove claims of lingering hatred.