› added 1 year ago

72

TIL a graffiti artist in Philadelphia once tagged his name on an actual elephant at the zoo

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

Rbd6 TIL that Jimmy Carter once left the codes required to initiate a nuclear attack in a jacket he sent to the dry cleaners
VB1E4 TIL the name of the shoe brand Asics is an acronym for a latin phrase meaning "a sound mind, in a sound body"
m1DOP TIL that in 2002, a train from South Korea on the Yeosu-Seoul line had 3 consecutive fatal collisions; all victims were elderly (81-90) and per protocol the engineers had to be swapped out after each collision; Some passengers even preemptively got off. The train ended up being 36 minutes late.
69bQl TIL there has never been a confirmed case of someone born with congenital blindness developing schizophrenia
yVa8 TIL that the religious order which worships Vladimir Putin as the reincarnation of Paul consists ONLY of women.