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TIL In 2011 A middle aged man got heckled by some teens who he lost a game of COD to, so he found them irl and tried to choke one of them out

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Z5PY TIL Verizon made a deal in 1994 with the PA state gov. to provide the entire state with fiber internet by 2014, it received 2.1 billion in tax breaks, but never fulfilled it’s part of the contract
JYPXV TIL that in 2012, a woman on vacation in Iceland joined a police search party to help find someone who was reported missing, The search went on for hours before she found out that the person they were looking for was herself.
9w7EG TIL that "Grain-Based Desserts" (ex: cookies, cake, pie) are the #1 source of calories in the average American's diet
gM7yb Today I learned that a German company sold radioactive toothpaste containing thorium until the US nuked Hiroshima and Nagasaki (Source in German)
8krK TIL student loans have hit a record high of $1.2 trillion in the United States