› added 7 years ago

129

TIL soda is dispensed in plastic bags in the Philippines.

Read more wanderlusting.me

via reddit.com

QLEM TIL: The correct way to bribe people, and how the bribery system works in 3rd world countries (courtesy of John McAfee)
E1ZyX TIL James Buchanan was America's first (and only) bachelor President. His niece, Harriet, acted as First Lady
47vb TIL that the influential American poet Walt Whitman’s collection of poetry,“Leaves of Grass”, was so controversial when first published in 1855 for its reference to open sexuality & homosexuality, that a major literary weekly publication recommended in its review that Whitman kill himself.
awrXZ TIL: There have been 60,000 attempts to get across the Berlin Wall. 5,000 people managed to escape through the Wall, with an estimated death toll of 136.
kWbd TIL that American commandos in Vietnam would print pornographic posters with small print in Vietnamese, then post them on trees with a land mine underneath.