› added 9 years ago

522

TIL all living humans are related to a single woman through an broken, maternal line. She is known as Mitochondrial Eve and is estimated to have lived around 100,000 - 200,000 years ago.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

OPLe TIL Costco hasn’t changed the price of a hot dog and soda combo ($1.50) in 22 years.
Jyy8 TIL There was an amusement park in Vernon, NJ that was so unsafe being injured was considered part of the experience. The Alpine Slide alone produced 14 broken bones, 26 head injuries, and 1 fatality.
kOxRd TIL of 15 yo Mary Vincent, who in the 70's hitched a ride with a stranger. She was then brutally assaulted in the van, had both of her arms chopped off, and was then thrown over a cliff to die. She miraculously survived and later faced her attacker in court.
jNmXX TIL 31% of Americans polled in October 1964 "disapproved" of the Civil Rights Act. Another 10% polled as "Don't know."
eL8E TIL that Wal-Mart used to routinely lock overnight workers in the store, often without a key-holding manager present and sometimes even chaining the fire escape shut