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TIL Ernest Hemingway had often complained the FBI was tracking him, but was dismissed by friends and family as paranoid. Years after his death released FBI files showed he had been on heavy surveillance, with the FBI following him and bugging his phones for nearly the final 20 years of his life

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GjXN TIL In 1983 there was a Japanese made Atari game called Lover Boy. You play a naked man chasing women around a Pac-man style maze, avoiding the police. If you catch the women you must bring her to orgasm before she can escape. The game was later banned
pY7YN TIL : Wayne Gretzky's stats were so far ahead of his peers' that if you cut his entire career number in half he's still one of the top 20 players of all time.
6E197 TIL during Grover Cleveland’s election campaign, it emerged that he had a possible illegitimate child. The campaign said it was true and that Grover had done his best in dealing with it. The mother disagreed- she said Grover had assaulted her, then had the baby taken from her and had her committed.
X0Bmk TIL that in the 1970s, a media frenzy and public panic erupted in London over the "Highgate Vampire"—a supposed undead entity haunting Highgate Cemetery—leading to vampire hunts, exorcisms, and even arrests.
LkwKd TIL Clint Eastwood was mayor of tiny Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA in the 1980s; he ran because he wanted to lift a ban on public ice cream sales, flew home from movie sets for weekly council meetings, wrote a column in the town paper, and a local hotel changed their slogan to "make my stay".