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TIL a poll of 1000 members of the World Gaming Executives network voted Baldur’s Gate as their favourite game of all time.

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RR0w TIL that there is a sparkling blue African berry which can retain it’s color for 40+ years after being picked.
LjoQ TIL that in Texas ‘The use of force to resist an arrest or search is justified if, before you offers any resistance, the peace officer uses or attempts to use greater force than necessary to make the arrest or search. 9.31 Subsection (b)
D1M6p TIL the bassist of the band Explosions in the Sky (famous for the Friday Night Lights soundtrack) got detained in an airport post-9/11 when "This Plane Will Crash Tomorrow” was found written on his guitar. The phrase was coincidentally on the album artwork of their latest release right before 9/11.
VM5Qp TIL: That today (June 4th) is hug your cat day
4kNQw TIL of John Dixwell who was one of the regicides who carried out the execution of King Charles I. Dixwell’s suspicions of the sham pardon later offered to him were proved correct, when a death warrant was issued. He would evade capture, dying in his 80’s in Connecticut.