› added 9 years ago

90

TIL There was a portuguese man that saved more jews during the WWII than Schindler. He saved 30 000 jews and was punished by his government for doing so. He died in misery, striped of all his titles and money.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

p87vO TIL tech companies in China hire "programming cheerleaders", pretty women that cheer up the programmers as they work at their desk. They need to know how to put on makeup, to be taller than 5'2, to have a "gentle voice", and a "contagious laugh".
AN0Rw TIL Contrary to myth, embassies are technically still soil of the host country, but host country laws don't apply within the premises.
dDaaB TIL only one NFL player has ever obtained a perfect Wonderlic("IQ") score, Bengals Punter Pat McInally. When asked to Retake the exam 32 years later, he missed one question. "Not a bad score after six concussions." Pat said.
KOvDR TIL - Water was probably delivered to Earth from space
6E6W7 TIL about .kkrieger, a first-person shooter from 2004 which makes extensive use of procedural generation techniques and therefore takes up only 96 kilobytes of disk space