› added 12 years ago

432

TIL UK journalist Jon Snow had the chance to, and strongly considered, shoot Idi Amin on an aeroplane. But he was hesitant because of the consequences and lack of knowledge on firing guns.

Read more guardian.co.uk

via reddit.com

m1xyp TIL Tattoo needles don’t push ink down into the skin, the ink sits on the skin surface and the vacuum created as the needle exits the skin pulls the ink down into the hole it poked.
9YjvQ TIL Akira Haraguchi, who in 2006 recited 100,000 digits of pi from memory at a public event near Tokyo. It took him 16hrs 30mins.
kOdBB TIL Rowan Atkinson (Mr Bean) holds the record for the biggest car repair bill (via a successful insurance claim) to fix his crashed McLaren F1 - more than £900k
6PwZ TIL 10^−360,783 is the probability that a monkey could write Hamlet in one go, including capitals and punctuation.
78MmM TIL that the Japanese killed 250,000 Chinese civilians in response to the Doolittle Raid. Chinese people who aided the American airmen were tortured before they were killed. The Imperial Japanese Army had also spread cholera, typhoid, plague infected fleas and dysentery pathogens.