› added 9 years ago

234

TIL: In a 2012 British random sampling of 68 recent convictions involving child sexual exploitation, 59 of the offenders were Pakistani men, that is approximately 87%.

Read more theguardian.com

via reddit.com

b9vg9 TIL That when Christopher Reeve (the man who played Superman) was about to receive the surgery to reattach his skull to his spine after falling off a horse, Robin Williams cheered him up by dressing as his character from Nine Months and proclaiming that Reeve will be getting a rectal exam.
wLxw1 TIL: You can be allergic to allergy medicine
4XKd5 TIL The 1918 worldwide epidemic was called the Spanish Flu not because it originated there, but because Spain was one of the few countries not censoring and suppressing news media during WWI.
VyGp TIL the solar system is moving through the Local Interstellar Cloud, proving that you are never in the same spot more than once on a cosmic scale.
K4DJ TIL Mount Rushmore has a hidden hallway with granite stairs that was designed to hold American relics and documents