› added 9 years ago

106

TIL South Africa is the only country to have ever developed its own nuclear weapons and then voluntarily dismantled them.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

P9wO TIL King George II of Great Britain was the last British monarch to personally lead his troops into battle
rRp81 TIL That fireflies are predatory...
P1YWZ TIL about Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, an Dutch Button salesman who in 17th Century managed to build an eyeglass 10 times more powerful than the best Microscope of the day and discovered millions of bacteria present in single drop of water He is sometimes knows as father of Microbiology
XEnLX TIL The Draft Eisenhower movement was the only successful political draft of the 20th century to take a private citizen to the Oval Office. It was a widespread American grassroots political movement that eventually persuaded Dwight D. Eisenhower to run for President.
60MX TIL that homeless children in Miami in the 1990s developed an elaborate folk mythology that was spread by oral tradition.