› added 7 years ago

152

TIL that the intended use of Rubber Bullets is to fire at the ground so that the round bounces up and hits the target on the legs, causing pain but not injury.

Read more wikipedia.org

via ift.tt

B6bW TIL: A gay waitress lied about a homophobic family on the news, then got caught when the family saw the news report
GVdj TIL the US convicted several Japanese soldiers for waterboarding American and Allied prisoners of war during WW2 and sentenced them to death
xRwb TIL that in 2003, an Australian girl who was alleged to have been murdered attended court to testify that she was alive and didn’t know the accused
oBr8o TIL that Queen is the only group to have each member write a #1 hit song
6Eb9w TIL Psychological Reactance is a term meaning an unpleasant motivational arousal to rules/laws that threaten or eliminate behavioral freedoms, and it leads the affected people to resist the social influence of others