› added 7 years ago

83

TIL that prison phone calls are really expensive. The companies who charge for the calls make $1.2 billion per year.

Read more nytimes.com

via ift.tt

kLZ7 TIL the Thuggee were a real death-cult that murdered 2,000,000 travelers over 600 years.
l8wV TIL that the first amored car of a president of the USA was the confiscated car of Al Capone!
XEPVQ TIL that bears are considered by many wildlife biologists to be one of the most intelligent land animals of North America. They possess the largest and most convoluted brains relative to their size of any land mammal. In the animal kingdom, their intelligence compares with that of higher primates.
QJj7k TIL sometimes dead whales explode! This is because their think skin and flubber doesn't let the methane leak out when they're decomposing.
MeQaW TIL People used to sleep indoors in ornate boxes called “box beds” or “lit close” to protect themselves from wolves, stay warm, and have some privacy.