› added 1 year ago

60

TIL Copyleft is a thing

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

bxO7 Today I learned that water is incredibly effective in protecting against radiation, with radiation doses “decreasing by half every 7 centimeters of water”
W4R4 TIL because they make over 300 million small rubber tires each year, LEGO is considered the world’s # 1 tire manufacturer
gvl7 TIL that a woman let an elderly woman go ahead of her in line at Publix. Both women purchased quick pick powerball tickets. The elderly woman won the $590,000,000 jackpot.
5PRP TIL “It’s A Wonderful Life” was classified as Communist Propaganda by the F.B.I. because it “deliberately maligned the upper class, attempting to show the people who had money were mean and despicable characters.”
ZWOv TIL that Claudette Colvin was the first person arrested for resisting bus segregation. However, since she was only 15 years old (and pregnant), the NAACP decided their secretary, Rosa Parks, would better represent the movement as the ideal segregation protester who would spark the bus boycotts.