› added 7 months ago

27

TIL that the Panopticon prison design used centrally positioned guards to create the illusion of constant surveillance, ensuring low-cost control over inmates behavior

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

BXlL TIL in 2002, a 86 year old man was held 45min at the airport due to a strange metal item in his pocket that TSA couldn’t understand - it was a Medal of Honor.
75Br TIL there is a 13,000-square-mile area in West Virginia where cell phones and Wi-FI are banned.
yVMka TIL that the creator of Wonder Woman was in a polyamorous relationship and based her Lasso of Truth on his belief in BDSM and “loving submission."
0wr9p TIL a necklace recovered from the wreck of the Titanic, belonging to First Class passenger Eleanor Widener, was stolen from a museum in Copenhagen in 2011. Though a priceless historical artifact, the necklace was only valued at $19K, so the museum offered a reward of just $1,000 for its return.
4ke5J TIL that hot sand frying is a common culinary technique among street vendors in China and India for cooking chestnuts and peanuts.