› added 5 years ago

104

TIL that, inspired by a hit 2018 pop song, "U.S.A." is a popular party game in Japan where people sing the chorus and try to insert actual facts about America.

Read more news.nicovideo.jp

via reddit.com

ADoYB TIL that the US Navy publicly denied what is now believed to be an urban legend. Allegedly, a US Navy battleship or aircraft carrier encountered what was ostensibly another vessel and the Captain instructed it to change course. The response was, 'I'm a lighthouse. Your call.'
PYBBL TIL of Father Daniel Berrigan, a Catholic Priest who ended up on the FBI's Most Wanted List after burning draft cards in protest of the Vietnam War
nBBb TIL a meta analysis of 21 separate studies spanning as many as 23 years and testing 347,000 people concluded there is no significant evidence that consumption of saturated fat has any relationship to coronary heart disease or cardiovascular disease.
p80e8 TIL in 2017, Russian man was convicted of murder after killing friend over AMD vs Nvidia argument
KOD0w TIL The first settler to successfully grow commercial Tobacco was John Rolfe in Jamestown, in Virginia in 1609. In 1614, the first shipment was sent to England. In 1638, 3,000,000 pounds was being sent annually. By the 1680s, Jamestown was producing over 25,000,000 pounds for export to Europe.