› added 12 years ago

88

TIL without affirmative action, whites, blacks, and Latinos drop in college admission rates…Asian admission rates rise.

Read more browndailyherald.com

via reddit.com

DQLBD TIL following the Civil War an estimated one-third to one-half of circulating currency was counterfeit
WklLB TIL the Disney company attempted to trademark the phrase "Dia De Los Muertos", the name of a holiday celebrated in Mexico.
E11wW TIL A ten year old Brooke Shields posed nude for Playboy magazine
pYyO4 TIL - Computers were people (mostly women) up until WWII. Teams of people, often women from the late nineteenth century onwards, were used to undertake long and often tedious calculations.
b6paa TIL: In April 1985, UC Santa Cruz students held a vote to determine whether the Student Health Center should stock cyanide pills for mass suicide after a nuclear attack.