› added 1 year ago

47

TIL about Arver v. United States, a U.S. Supreme Court decision which upheld the Selective Service Act of 1917. The court held that, citing Vattel's The Law of Nations (1758), a just government has a duty to protect its citizens, which obligates those citizens to render miliary service.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

MeVlB TIL President Ulysses S Grant was given a speeding ticket for driving his buggy “at a furious pace” through the streets of D.C.
BpmL TIL in 1958 while widening a road the RAF discovered that a fifteen year-old display mockup of the biggest bomb ever used in WWII was not merely a mockup but was actually a live bomb.
v1MZ4 TIL that Venus flytrap plants are native to the coasts of North and South Carolina.
ZmrR TIL Sega created an RPG for the Dreamcast called Segagaga, in which the objective was to keep Sega in the console market.
dDEp7 TIL about shotgun houses - narrow rectangular houses about 12 feet wide that were popular in the Southern United States from the end of the American Civil War through the 1920s.