TIL that Valve co-founder Gabe Newell got so obsessed with Mongolian throat singing that Counter-Strike developers had to shut their doors to block out the speakers

TIL in 1984 a gunman named Denis Lortie attacked the Quebec parliament and was talked into surrendering by the unarmed Sergeant-at-arms, René Jalbert, who spoke directly with Lortie until he was convi

TIL that a epistle attributed to an early Christian Teacher named James repeatedly stresses the sin of being rich and goes so far as to say the rich abuse the common man and are your enemy. He goes on

TIL that US TV and radio stations are legally named using 4-letter call signs starting with 'W' or 'K'. Stations east of the Mississippi River must start with W (like WABC), while stations to the west