Post * 1a6EO — Curious Curator

› added 7 years ago

216

TIL PornHub offered to Plow New Jersey and Boston streets for free during winter storm Stella.

Read more

x6b45 TIL South Korean Government funded an online troll group to spread Pro-South Korean viewpoints on the internet

ZPba TIL that “stranger danger” is a myth: Children are twice as likely to be killed by a relative and 20x more likely to be killed by their parents than at the hands of a stranger.

klJm TIL Doing a Google search uses the same amount of electricity as turning a 60W light bulb on for 17 seconds.

X5GQ TIL That the opening scene in Starship Troopers, an infantry advertisment, was adapted shot for shot from a Nazi propaganda movie called Triumph of Will. The scene featured an outdoor rally of the militarized and indoctrinated german labour force, the Reichsarbeitsdienst.

0dP1p TIL in the US Civil War, US forces under inept General Ben Butler were repulsed in the first attempt at taking Petersburg in part by a scratch force of old men, young boys and jail inmates and is referred to as "The Battle of The Patients and Penitents" and "The battle of Old Men and Young Boys"