› added 11 years ago

108

TIL America’s first female self-made millionaire was a black woman

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

6Ewy8 TIL Belovezhskaya Pushcha National Park, Belarus, contains parts of the last primeval forest fragment of the European woodlands that once stretched across the European Plain. Since 2015 there has been a visa-free regime within the forest for hikers and cyclists between Poland and Belarus
16RLr TIL that when physicists say that light is affected by being observed, it actually just means that light is affected by being interacted with.
5YGpQ TIL that the world’s longest marathon took about 54 years. Heat stopped Shiso Kanakuri during the 1967 Olympics. Ashamed, he went back to Japan without alerting authorities. Sweden then put him on a missing persons list for over half a century before he was found and given the chance to finish.
QRBa TIL prostitution is legal in parts of Nevada and that in 2005 brothel owners lobbied unsuccessfully to be taxed in order to increase their legitimacy.
yV7ov TIL 37 is the most common number people choose when asked to think of a random number between 1 and 100 (according to the Stanford / MIT Jargon file)