› added 11 years ago

90

TIL that the US airforce dropped pamphlets in Hiroshima warning people of the bombing

Read more damninteresting.com

via reddit.com

6EmAY TIL Intel Corporation continues to install drivers on their PC's with a driver date of 7/18/1968. That's not a typo. Intel was founded on that day.
Wgn4 TIL a man called Silvio Gesell once created ‘free money’ that depreciated over time. This money brought a german town out of an economic slump and eventually became accepted by banks.
GmPE TIL: President Ford was saved from assassination by a ‘closeted’ solider who the press outed as gay. Despite this being controversial in 1975, Ford publicly thanked the soldier who was estranged from his parents until Ford so publicly supported him.
OoW6X TIL of Hisashi Ouchi, a victim of a 1999 Japanese nuclear plant disaster. Radiation burns caused him to have nearly zero white blood cells. Despite his pleas, he was kept alive for research purposes. After 83 days in the hospital, he died of organ failure.
lV87 TIL sushi doesn’t mean raw fish, but vinegared rice