› added 12 years ago

122

TIL: Snuggle gets 2 out of 10 in health rankings due to dangerous ingredients, making it the worst ranking US laundry product in GoodGuides database.

Read more goodguide.com

via reddit.com

OXpa TIL The very first attempted assassination of a United States president was stopped when then President, Andrew Jackson, beat his assailant brutally with a his cane before being stopped by a nearby congressmen.
b67OE TIL Raye Montague was the first person to design a ship in a computer. In 1971 Montague produced the initial draft for the Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigate in about 19 hours.
NXVQN TIL a petrifying well is a well or other body of water which gives objects a stone-like appearance. If an object is placed into such a well and left there for a period of months or years, the object acquires a stony exterior.
vPXmr TIL salt and pepper didn’t collab with each other until the 17th century.
ne9lG TIL that during the Battle of the Wabash in 1791, a force of Native Americans wiped out approximately one quarter of the entire United States Army.