› added 8 years ago

89

TIL that Tinder, Match.com, PlentyOfFish, and OKCupid are all owned by the same company.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

mxe4y TIL of underground cock-fighting arenas in Miami, Fl. Rings included small boxes with glass windows that dramatically lowered the competing cocks into the arena at the start of fights. A cock-fighting referee was even murdered at one, a pouch of ref equipment hanging from his neck.
Jb6m TIL the US military investigated building a “gay bomb”, which would make enemy soldiers “sexually irresistible” to each other.
xVp60 TIL Chiang Kai Shek's son was a Nazi lieutenant in the Wehrmacht.
nejN7 TIL in England, after 2 thieves broke into a mans home and made off with his laptop, they inspected the device, found serious child abuse material and went to the cops regardless. The paedophile got 3 yrs in jail. The judge gave robbers a 12 month community service orders in light of their good deed
9wyGX TIL that until 1828 in England, a wife killing her husband was considered " Petty Treason" and worse than murder—because he was legally her "lord and ruler." And the punishment for it was being burned at the stake