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TIL when Arnold Schwarzenegger was Governor of California, rival politicians accused him of hiding the words, 'Fuck You', in an acrostic-style message to them when he vetoed a bill. When asked, Schwarzenegger's campaign team said, "My goodness. What a coincidence."

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0wkRj TIL that before being sentenced to prison, rapper Meek Mill's judge allegedly requested he abandon his record label to sign with her friend, and that he cover a Boys II Men song mentioning her name. At the same trial, the court clerk passed Mill a note asking him to help pay her son's tuition.
woo7E TIL about The Death of The Artist, a performance art piece by Abel Azcona. Azcona invited several entities that had threatened his life and offered them a gun to kill him as Azcona stood on a raised platform.
JeVm TIL the 1984 film, ‘Romancing the Stone’ was called a 'Raiders of the Lost Ark’ rip-off by TIME. The screenplay was actually written 5 years earlier by a Malibu waitress who died in a car crash shortly after the film’s release
vw7R TIL a New York man had his home taken from him, his life threatened by a judge and then ended up mysteriously dead from a head injury shortly after compiling the evidence of this…
LkQp0 New research suggests that the way chameleons change color is very different from what scientists had assumed. In this week’s "Today I Learned" filmmaker and National Geographic Grantee Jason Jaacks explains that the color change is controlled by nanocrystals in a top layer of the lizards' skin.