› added 5 years ago

52

TIL that police officers carry teddy bears to give to children in distress.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

xeG5 TIL a mathematician discovered a formula for the act of kindness, eventually he committed suicide because of despondency over his inability to continue helping the homeless.
dDAMQ TIL that Shalimar Seiuli, the sex worker who gained infamy when she was seen getting into Eddie Murphy's car, died after falling five floors after she locked herself out of her apartment and tried to use a towel as a rope to swing down from the roof to an open window.
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
e15D TIL a Woman cut the tattoo of her boyfriend’s name off of her forearm with a scalpel and mailed him the skin after she found out he had cheated on her and lied about moving out of the country to avoid the breakup
xYP1 TIL that Ganymede, the largest moon in our Solar System, is the only known moon that has a magnetic field.