› added 9 years ago

140

TIL that Mexico was once almost as large as the Roman Empire

Read more m.wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

NEaJ TIL there’s a real, working turret that fires 1,000,000 rounds per minute (or 16,666 bullets per second; a bullet every 0,002 seconds)
eEQk TIL 1 in 10 Americans now takes an antidepressant; among women in their 40s and 50s, the figure is 1 in 4
beA7 TIL Bob Odenkirk (Breaking Bad’s Saul Goodman) read only his lines for the final episode. He then threw the script in the garbage and made sure he would not know the ending until the episode airs on television
epayL TIL Jeremy Renner makes music and appears to have done so for years!
eKKb TIL A former teacher named Mohan Kumar would befriend young women, have sex with them and convince them to take a “morning after pill”. Little did they know, the morning after pills were cyanide capsules made by him. He killed twenty women this way.