› added 6 years ago

156

TIL in 2002, Kim Jong-il agreed to let Japanese abductees visit Japan. A few weeks later, the Japanese Government "restricted" the abductees from returning to North Korea.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

awdo9 TIL that CNN prepared a doomsday end of the world video to be broadcast by the last surviving employee. It was leaked by a former intern in 2009.
kGME TIL that Singapore Air flight 21, the longest scheduled flight, had special lockers on board to store the corpses of anyone who died on board, due to the lack of unscheduled stopping locations
Wk5G8 TIL in 1941 the President of Haiti declared war on Japan, Germany, Italy, Bulgaria, Hungary, and Romania. Only Romania bothered to declare war on Haiti in return.
5oBP TIL: Every year they pull out between 12,000 and 15,000 bikes from the canals of Amsterdam
mxA7p TIL the person who graduates last in his class during the United States Military Academy at West Point graduation ceremony each year is called "the goat" joining an exclusive club which includes Civil War hero General George Custer.