› added 4 months ago

11

TIL the first basketball game ever played ended 1–0

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

VBdGZ TIL if a watermelon is beginning to foam it has a chance of exploding.
Wk88X TIL In the 1970s the US changed its nuclear doctrine after discovering that neither side could win a nuclear war. Presidents Nixon and Carter changed the nuclear attack plans to allow the Russians to survive and recover after a nuclear war, even if the US did not survive
16JJ7 TIL about Marshall Applewhite, the leader of the Heaven's Gate cult, who falsely believed, along with his followers, that a spacecraft was located behind the Hale-Bopp Comet when it passed by Earth in 1997.
yVxLJ TIL the Melbourne gold rush drew more people to Victoria than the California gold rush did to the US.
e0ylD TIL in 1911 there was a baseball team made up of death row inmates who had been told that as long as they kept wining games, their executions would be delayed.