› added 5 years ago

546

TIL about the Tenerife Airport Disaster when, on a day in which there was fog heavy enough to reduce visibility to less than 500 yards, two Boeing 747s had a head-on collision at the runway that resulted in 583 casualties and the deadliest accident in aviation history.

Read more telegraph.co.uk

via reddit.com

JGnk TIL that In Idaho, if you commit perjury that leads to the execution of an innocent person, you can be executed for that.
v10yD TIL there is a secret entrance to the White House through an alley on H Street
X8mj TIL that Howard Hughes bought the Silver Slipper casino so he could turn off the flashing slipper sign so he didn’t have to see it anymore from his penthouse across the street
rREM TIL that in Cali, Columbia, when a woman is going to have sex with her husband for the first time, her mother must be present to witness the act.
wLWoJ TIL about the Megalithic Temples of Malta. Built during three distinct periods approximately between 3600 BC and 2500 BC on the island country of Malta. They had been claimed as the oldest free-standing structures on Earth until the discovery of Göbekli Tepe.