› added 9 months ago

27

TIL: "Pretty Boy" Floyd, one of America's most notorious bank robbers, was known for destroying mortgage papers during bank heists, so freeing hundreds of individuals from property debt.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

7kp7 TIL adult Norwegian Mcdonald’s workers have a starting salary of over $24 USD an hour
1ajPV TIL that between 1950 to 1970, The Scottish government coerced about 60,000 Scottish mothers into giving up their children simply because they were unmarried. The children were given up for adoption.
E1wxX TIL in the 1930 in London children where put in "baby cages" hanging from the windows so they can get healthy fresh air.
PPGV TIL George Washington borrowed 2 books from the New York Library when he was president. He never returned them and the fine is estimated at $300,000
Wk5Z8 TIL The star Antares has a mass of about 12 times that of the Sun, if placed in the center of our Solar System, it would reach somewhere between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter