› added 2 months ago

27

TIL that, in 1933 the Canadian government intentionally destroyed 15 tonnes of documentation regarding residential school victims

Read more cbc.ca

via reddit.com

DVDp TIL: Victoria’s Secret was founded by a guy in the 1970’s who had a very unpleasant experience while trying to buy his wife some underwear. The employees treated him as a pervert. VS almost failed since it catered mostly to men in the beginning.
mxAnE TIL the record time for driving from NYC to LA (the ~2800 mile/4500 km "Cannonball Run") is 25 hours 39 minutes. To avoid getting stopped, the car was disguised as a pоlіcе interceptor, and had brake light kill-switches, radar detectors, laser diffusers, CB-radio, and a roof-mounted thermal camera
E1v1w TIL Some metals are so reactive that they explode on contact with water
QNae TIL Liam Neeson often gets mistaken for Ralph Fiennes, and has even signed autographs in Fiennes’ name
8aV7V TIL about the high levels of PTSD in low-income, urban neighborhoods in the United States. A sample of 1900 patients in Atlanta's Grady Memorial Hospital found that 87.8% of the sample suffered at least one-lifetime traumatic event, and the lifetime prevalence of PTSD was 46.2%.