› added 1 year ago

36

TIL the FBI spent much of the 90's and early 2000's building a RICO case against Wu-Tang, believing them to be a wider criminal enterprise responsible for gun-running and murders from Ohio to New York.

Read more vice.com

via reddit.com

LQrJV TIL that there is a Disney Professor of Archaeology at Cambridge, named for its benefactor, antiquarian John Disney.
Oor6Y TIL that vultures stomach acid pH level is lower than that of car battery acid
EgKad TIL That a German-born cartoonist created a comic strip where Mickey Mouse was sent to a concentration camp, while incarcerated in that camp.
nWJ8B TIL Max Planck's professor advised him not to pursue Physics as he believed that almost everything had been already discovered. In spite of the warning, he proceeded to establish quantum theory and obtained a Nobel Prize for his accomplishments.
mnLy TIL we have doodles from an elementary school-aged child from the 13th century - including “battle scenes and drawings of himself and his teacher”