› added 4 years ago

85

TIL that adults have protective services too, not just kids.

Read more napsa-now.org

via reddit.com

VBBKZ TIL The Hertella Auto Kaffeemachine was the first known dashboard-mounted coffee maker. Manufactured in 1959 specifically for the Volkswagen Beetle, it came with porcelain cups which could stick to the machine magnetically
OgOe TIL that twin brothers separated at birth and reunited 39 yrs later lived almost parallel lives. Both were named James, both owned a dog named Toy, both had married twice; first to women named Linda and second to women named Betty. Both drove Chevys, smoked Salem cigarettes and drank Miller Lite.
BDAk TIL of David Burke, a disgruntled ex-employee of an airline company who was able to board a plane, shoot his former boss and the pilots, and crashed the plane, killing a total of 43 people.
woj91 TIL that a section of Kuomintang (Nationalist) forces near the Sino-Burmese border refused to withdraw to Taiwan in 1949. They remained in Burmese territory for eleven years, fighting against the government of Myanmar and the People's Republic of China until their final defeat in 1961.
KOGRQ TIL about the "gringo tree". So named because when exposed to he sun it becomes red and peeling.