› added 4 years ago

60

TIL the George Washington Carver National Monument was the first national monument dedicated to a African-American and a non-president. Despite non-war expenses being banned by presidential order, a bill in favor of the monument was passed unanimously by Congress during WW2.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

Z8nKa TIL after the Chinese Civil War, several units of the Nationalist army fled to Burma. When recalled to Taiwan, some refuse and marched into Thailand, where they grew opium while fighting Communists for the government. Their village is now "one of Thailand's top ten destinations among backpackers."
neY9W TIL that a town in Colorado offers an open air funeral pyre as an option instead of cremation or regular burial
N7LDe TIL with the exceptions of manatees and sloths, all mammals have 7 cervical vertebrae, or neck bones.
JaL4 TIL that Reuters was founded by Paul Reuters, who in 1848 established a route of carrier pigeons to transmit information about stock news that was faster than the postal trains of the time.
l1Q7 TIL the blood smear on The Comedian’s button in Watchmen represents the minute hand on the Soviet Doomsday Clock.