› added 2 years ago

165

TIL happy hours are illegal in Indiana

Read more indianapublicmedia.org

via reddit.com

vW6r TIL of Colorado Gov. Ralph Carr who during the Japanese Interment of WWII was the only Gov. to open up his state to Japanese-American citizens as a safe zone to avoid interment. The move cost him his political career.
OlX7 TIL the Tokyo Olympics will be held in 2020, corresponding with the events in the 1988 anime film Akira, which took place in 2019 leading up to the fictional 2020 Tokyo Olympics
DArj TIL that Adrien Brody is banned from performing on SNL due to giving an improvised introduction the first (and only) time he appeared on the show.
yVeBl TIL Minneapolis uses a dozen clams to test the cleanliness of the city's drinking water
OG4d1 TIL of Nadia Murad a Yazidi girl who was kidnapped and sold as a sex slave, later became the first Yazidi to win a Nobel Peace Prize but was boycotted by the superintendent at the Toronto District School Board over fears her story would promote Islamophobia