› added 9 years ago

197

TIL that to this day, no one knows who turned in Anne Frank and her family to the Nazis.

Read more annefrank.org

via reddit.com

V850 TIL US Navy accidentally shot down a passenger plane from Tehran to Dubai in 1988.
8BMG TIL some cooperative bottlenose dolphins off the coast of Brazil help fishermen - having signaled with head and tail slaps to the fishermen where to drop nets, they corral the fish toward into them and eat the fish missed by the net.
4XEPa TIL Ben Sliney, FAA operations manager who ordered 4,000 planes to be grounded immediately after the 9/11 attacks, was on his first day on the job.
pYA9G TIL Puyi, the Last Emperor of China, passed away in what was then called “Beijing Hospital of Anti-Imperialism”
R5jo7 TIL that the founder of Qualcomm pursued a degree in hotel management at Cornell University for a year and a half before switching to electrical engineering.