› added 7 years ago

334

TIL In Japan, suicide hotlines are so busy that a person may have to try 30 or more times to get through to an operator.

Read more theatlantic.com

via ift.tt

nebyo TIL Benjamin Franklin was a popular author at 16 under the name Silence Dogood. The articles are written in the persona of a middle-aged woman and Franklin received several marriage proposals in the process. Franklin would slide these articles under the door of his brother's newspaper print shop.
WeZL TIL that during the Cold War the US seriously considered dropping a nuclear bomb on the Moon as a show of military superiority.
5VJyp TIL that 21 out of the last 31 U.S. elections, the tallest person was elected President.
GAXJE TIL A group of pandas is called an embarrassment.
4ll5 TIL that in 1910, Congress nearly passed “the American Hippo Bill”, which would have released hippos in Louisiana bayous in order to eat invasive plants while solving America’s meat shortage. Newspapers of the time praised hippo meat as “lake cow bacon”.