› added 7 months ago

20

TIL that half of all fertile women in Greenland in the 60s and 70s were forcibly given IUDs in a genocidal campaign, where the birth rate was cut in half.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

l7MO1 TIL that in every U.S. state, whoever presses the button on the slot machine wins the wager, which is why in 2017, a man who had his female friend push the slot machine button for good luck did not win anything but she won $100,000.
eAXb TIL Suffixes and prefixes are both kinds of affixes, but there are also nine other categories
LQQpr TIL that the Grease was originally a play based on the writer's teen years in Chicago, and the male characters were toughs with Polish surnames. The toughs were made more likeable when the play went to New York and became a musical, and the Polish influence was toned down for the movie.
jNvJn TIL Winston Churchill is considered one of the Founding Fathers of the European Union. Churchill called for a "United States of Europe", organised democratically, to prevent future wars. He was a driving force behind the creation of the Council of Europe.
Vr4G TIL There is an annual conference on boring things. In the past people have given talks on barcodes, sneezing and the sounds of vending machines.