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TIL how one Japanese artist spent six months trekking 3000 miles through Japan with a GPS tracker to spell out ‘Marry Me’ across islands

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6kmZ TIL of James “Shanghai” Kelly, who in the 1800s kidnapped men and forced them to work on ships. One year on his birthday he announced he was hosting a free “booze cruise” to celebrate, served opium-laced whiskey to the attendees, then offloaded them onto waiting ships and got 100 men in one night
yQENp TIL an armed robbery attempt ended in a group hug after the victims offered the robber cheese and wine - an example of non-complementary behavior, where an unexpected warm response to a negative demand "flipped the script" of the situation.
8aW4L TIL of chemist Carl Scheele, known for discovering oxygen, molybdenum, tungsten, barium, hydrogen, and chlorine, as well as organic acids, died at just 43 as a result of the cumulative effect of exposure to arsenic, mercury and lead. Despite his discoveries, for years others were given credit.
M7xMm TIL that a dam project in Tennessee resulted in the seizure of family farmland into high-end real estate, the near extinction of a fish species, a Supreme Court case, and the loss of Native American sites.
OjgL TIL that FDR founded an organization to find a cure for polio, and believed that if every American gave only a dime, polio would be eradicated. Because of this motto, after his death in 1945, FDR’s face was put on the dime, and his organization was renamed “The March of Dimes.”