› added 4 years ago

228

TIL: Wearing a tie may seriously damage your body and eyesight

Read more businessinsider.com

via reddit.com

W61X TIL McDonalds has closed down in six countries (Bermuda, Barbados, Bolivia, Jamaica, Iceland and Montenegro)
nWWkG TIL Justice Wilson was briefly incarcerated in a debtor's prison where he continued to be a Supreme Court Justice. He was in such debt that he largely abdicated his position on the Supreme Court for the last two years of his life to flee from creditors to who he owed money.
MeAaB TIL Christopher Boyce, a college drop out who despised the CIA was given high level security clearance to handle top secret CIA wires. He then sold these top level secrets to the Soviet Union through its embassy in Mexico City. The story was a top selling book and movie "The Falcon and the Snowman"
PYKjg TIL Lisa Leslie once m scored 101 points in only 16 minutes (first half) of a high school basketball game.
WeJB TIL Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring’s younger brother Albert despised Nazism, and offered active resistance to the regime, including helping prisoners escape from concentration camps. He was arrested four times, but Hermann secured his release each time.