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TIL that In 1986, Apple Launched a Clothing Line

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9Y5jm TIL over International Military Sports Council, made up of 134 countries, sends almost 10,000 servicemen to compete in the Military World Games. These are the military version of the Olympics. The most recent games were held in October, in Wuhan, China and only 100 countries participated.
wo6jY TIL that Jim Lovell—the commander of the Apollo 13 mission who was portrayed by Tom Hanks in the 1995 film—had actually already flown to the Moon. He was the command module pilot for the Apollo 8 mission, the first human spaceflight to reach the Moon.
Agl4 TIL in 1983, a small town in Missouri was permanently evacuated when high levels of dioxin were discovered in soil samples. It was discovered that a man hired to oil the dirt roads to keep dust down had used waste from a company making Agent Orange.
xVejo TIL In Weird Al's White & Nerdy music video Jordan Peele and Keegan-Michael Key are the two "gangsters" who are scared away by Yankovic's nerdiness in the beginning of the video.
eG9n TIL Leonardo DiCaprio was named Leonardo because his pregnant mother was looking at a Leonardo da Vinci painting in a museum in Italy when he first kicked.