› added 7 years ago

67

TIL in 1996 an instrument failure caused a plane to lose control and crash just after takeoff, killing 189 people. It was later determined that the device used to measure airspeed was blocked by a wasp nest

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

mxp0v TIL about Mexican singer Chalino Sanchez receiving a death threat telling him to stop singing at his last concert on May 15, 1992, but continued singing despite the warning. He was killed later that night in Culiacan, Sinaloa.
5lan TIL… In 1882, Robert Ford killed the outlaw Jesse James in order to collect the reward… only to find out that he would immediately be charged for first degree murder.
D1oxg TIL in 2000, Microsoft was ordered to split in two by the US government in an anti-trust suit. Microsoft appealed and eventually settled, agreeing to cease anti-competitive behaviour.
dkMQ TIL the Indonesian Communist Party was once the largest non-governing Communist Party in the world, and was effectively dissolved through a US-supported mass killing of 500,000 of its members.
VJ0Q TIL There’s a law in Canada called the “Apology Act” which prevents parties from using an apology as a statement of fault in court.