› added 1 year ago

166

TIL Trent Reznor’s Nine Inch Nails was previously part of a 80s pop band called Slam Bamboo

Read more youtu.be

via reddit.com

Y7mLd TIL in 1938, Chiang Kai-Shek caused the deadliest manmade flood in history when he intentionally broke the Yellow River dam. While he did succeed in his goal of slowing down the Japanese advance, it ended up killing 400,000-893,303 people in the process.
m9PY TIL that Uzbekistan used to/still does perform non-consensual sterilizations on women after their 2nd childbirth. They would do it by removing the entire uterus. This happened to over 10,000 innocent women.
Rdb8 TIL: In January 2012, 150 employees of Foxconn, Taiwanese technology company and contract manufacturer for products including the iPhone, iPad and Playstation 4, threatened to commit mass suicide in protest of their working conditions
DlAJ TIL The US Constitution only lists 3 requirements to run for President; be a natural-born citizen, be a permanent resident in the US for 14 years and be at least 35.
rN7Ye TIL The Goldilocks Principle allowing Earth to sustain life because of its position in the solar system, and the slightest change would be detrimental to its survival.