› added 12 years ago

158

TIL that nearly $1 million of Royalties collected from sales of Hitler’s Mein Kampf, sit unused because no one wants the money.

Read more cabinetmagazine.org

via reddit.com

woPy8 TIL Somoas are the unhealthiest Girl Scout Cookie & Trefoils are the healthiest Girl Scout Cookie
RvBl TIL: There is a nonprofit that lets you make microloans as little as $25 to help people escape poverty, has taken in nearly $700 million, gives 100% of your donation to the cause, and has a repayment rate of 98.80%
BW5e TIL the Germans used Kriegspiel, a chess variant where players cannot see their opponent’s pieces, to train its military officers in the 19th century.
rNOd0 TIL that Nazi Germany was the first country to launch an object into space and did this in 1944 with a V2 rocket
wooM7 TIL about the Ibadan forest of horror, in which peoples bodyparts were harvested to be sold for ritual sacrifice.