› added 10 years ago

180

TIL a man’s enormous 12-pound facial tumour could have been treated when he was a teenager, but his mother wouldn’t let him get surgery because she was a Jehovah’s Witness.

Read more abcnews.go.com

via reddit.com

e0BQn TIL: Microsoft gave the domain Bob.com to a guy named Bob in exchange for Windows2000.com
1adRP TIL the most decorated infantry unit in US history was made up of Japanese-Americans during WWII despite being untrusted and their communities forced into camps.
P10dV TIL There Are Over 200 Bodies on Mount Everest, And They’re Used as Landmarks
yVG08 TIL that In 1315, King Louis X passed a decree that abolished slavery and proclaimed that "France signifies freedom". The decree entailed that any slave setting foot on French ground should be freed
8ajmG TIL of Operation Tracer, a plan to seal six members of the British Navy in a cave to monitor the Germans if they took over the Gibraltar base and tunnel system. One of the few involved and aware of the project was Ian Fleming, the author of James Bond.