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TIL The Galileo spacecraft saw a mile-high, 16-mile-long curtain of lava erupt from Jupiter's moon Io

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69Ny7 TIL that Roman Soldiers were not allowed to marry until the Second Century AD. Until then wives were illegal and any children were considered illegitimate.
V61p TIL of an App developer who quit his job by sneaking an X-rated Alternate Ending and resignation letter into his company’s game before someone online found it
WVDN TIL Lou Pearlman, who signed N'Sync, The Backstreet Boys, and other boy bands in the 90’s would choose one boy from each band to molest as a condition of signing them. A former employee is quoted as saying “There was one guy in every band — one sacrifice … who takes it for Lou.”
Bmeb TIL the Canadians had Japanese internment camps like the Americans
6EKRl TIL The last male treasurer of the United States, William Alexander Julian, was in office from 1933-1949. The last 14 treasurers have been women.