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TIL that there was a six-episode anime adaptation of Robert Heinlein's novel Starship Troopers

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LL9P TIL Texas no longer offers a special “last meal” to condemned inmates. Instead, the inmate is offered the same meal served to the rest of the unit.
4X0PR TIL Royal Bank of Canada has a program that draws students for a summer-long challenge to develop solutions to real-world business problems, like detecting sophisticated cyber bots. The bank files patents to protect the technology and use students' innovation in their business
9wx5B TIL in 1969, the illegitimate son of comedian Stepin Fetchit, who had met his father for the first time only two years before, went on a shooting rampage on the Pennsylvania Turnpike, injuring 16 and killing 5, including his wife and himself.
jvla TIL that George Washington did not have any wooden teeth, and that he had a set of REAL teeth from slaves
1aGX4 TIL Martin Lawrence is permanently banned from hosting SNL. The comedian hosted once in 1994 and performed a monologue where he criticized the vaginal hygiene of women. The rant, in which he went into detail about what he felt was a drop in feminine hygiene standards, will never be re-aired.