Dec 14 TIL: In 2016, a man stole $5 million from his workplace as an accounting department manager over the course of 7 years and spent $1 million of it on a single mobile video game, Game of War. Outside of that, he spent it on cars, furniture, and sports tickets.
Dec 14 Inside Chernobyl, scientists have discovered a black fungus feeding on deadly gamma radiation.
Dec 14 TIL that Nickelodeon almost cancelled Hey Arnold’s Christmas episode because they thought kids wouldn’t care about its portrayal of the Vietnam War. An executive revoked the decision when her nine-year-old son saw a rough cut of the episode and asked ‘Mom, is that what Vietnam was all about?’.
