› added 1 year ago

114

TIL Of Fisheries Observers who are employed to monitor fishing boat practices and compliance. They work alone on boats often thousands of kilometers from port. It is a dangerous job and they disappear often.

Read more theguardian.com

via reddit.com

R57vw TIL that serial killer Richard Cottingham worked in the same office as another serial killer, Rodney Alcala, in 1969, though the two denied being aware of each other.
wLgrE TIL On the list of celebrity plane crashes in the last 20 years, Harrison Ford is the only one who has been in more than one. He's been in 4.
rNR4 TIL there is a man obsessed with accusing one of Google’s co-founders of the murder of Stanford graduate student May Zhou. You will find him in the comments of any Google related story…..
V40Z TIL a 1913 survey of US children working under difficult conditions in factories found that 412 out of 500 would rather work in sweatshops than the “monotony, humiliation, and cruelty” of school.
X5EP TIL a psychiatric hospital in Canada stripped inmates nude, shut them in an empty room and gave them large, sustained doses of LSD as part of a controversial new form of therapy.