› added 4 years ago

250

TIL the Bopal Chemical Disaster in India, where a methyl-isocyanate leak (500 times deadlier than hydrogen cyanide) from a factory killed more than 8000 residents in one night. The MIC leak went undetected due to the factory's earlier removal of the alarm siren in order to not disturb its neighbours

Read more theguardian.com

via reddit.com

l764a TIL: Richard Stallman, accomplished programmer, launched the GNU Project and is an eccentric advocate for Open Software and pirating. He doesn't use a cell phone, canonized himself as St. IGNUcius of the Church of Emacs, and disliked Jobs. However, he has controversial takes and resigned from MIT.
g4aW TIL Emma Morano is the last person alive from the 1800s at 117 years old
OGL7X TIL about Saint Guinefort, a legendary 13th-century French greyhound that received local veneration as a folk saint
yVoOX TIL only Kenyan runners have won the Commonwealth Games 3000 metre steeplechase since 1994
pYekN TIL that Texas has an embassy in Washington DC.