› added 9 years ago

202

TIL YahooMail Is So Bad That Congress Banned It on Capital Hill

Read more gizmodo.com

via ift.tt

MmXm TIL the FBI likely encouraged myths about Ma Barker being a criminal mastermind to justify shooting her during the shootout between the Barker-Karpis gang and the FBI. She likely never had any involvement in the gang’s crimes.
LQwrd TIL the American food corporation General Mills had an engineering division that built surveillance balloons that spied on Eastern Bloc countries, and built a deep-sea submersible that surveyed the Titanic wreck and helped recover a hydrogen bomb from the Mediterranean Ocean.
0wkMy TIL that there is a statue in Russia that honors all the laboratory mice that have sacrificed their lives in order to further scientific research
lolr7 TIL that after Bush Jr. put tariffs on steel imports, what some accused of being a political stunt to get votes from the Rust Belt, the EU threatened to tariff oranges and motorbikes which are big industries in key swing states. Bush responded by dropping the steel tariffs.
woogo TIL: Mercia was one of the three notable Anglic kingdoms founded after as Sub-Roman Britain was settled by Anglo-Saxons. It was centred around the River Trent and its tributaries, in a region now known as the Midlands of England.