› added 4 years ago

112

TIL During the US occupation of Japan after WWII, General Douglas MacArthur oversaw the Japanese government introducing large social and economic reforms inspired by President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal

Read more fpif.org

via reddit.com

Rbd6 TIL that Jimmy Carter once left the codes required to initiate a nuclear attack in a jacket he sent to the dry cleaners
O401 TIL Google has been buying 1 company a week, since 2010.
ymgM TIL Pink Floyd’s “The Dark Side of the Moon” has spent a total 923 weeks (17 years, 9 months) on the Billboard 200 chart, including a 741 week (14 years, 3 months) stint after being released. The second longest total time on the chart is 490 weeks.
M7eYB TIL: Walruses can whistle
a87Lo TIL America is officially on the metric system, secretly.