› added 9 years ago

66

TIL that President Andrew Jackson once killed a man in a duel over his wife’s honor

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

lonmG TIL Finland trains elite soldiers in Lapland in preparation for a future war with neighbouring Russia. The two countries share an 833 mile border and were in conflict during WWII.
GkXg TIL Steve Wozniak’s favorite video game is Tetris. He submitted so many high scores to Nintendo Power that they eventually stopped printing them, so he then sent in his scores under the name “Evets Kainzow”
6EYLJ TIL that during WWII, French-Moroccan soldiers kidnapped, defiled and/or killed 2,000 - 60,000 Italian female civilians in what is considered one of the worst war crimes of the war
rRjEd TIL When 2nd in command of N-A-Z-I Germany, Hermann Goering, surrendered to the Americans he was in possession of thousands of pills of morphine. Goering gave the Americans a rare interview from his cell in July 1945. The notable excerpts are in the comments;
e08o4 TIL Indian women own 11% of the world's gold, over 21,000 tons of it