› added 7 years ago

187

TIL Martin Van Buren was the first U.S. President for whom English was a second language (He spoke Dutch). He was also the first President to be born in America, (as opposed to British Colonial soil)

Read more thelatinlibrary.com

via ift.tt

9wpKp TIL there have been five great mass extinctions on earth and we may living through the sixth mass extinction
7rp6O TIL the couple that founded Panda Express both have degrees in Mathematics. The husband has a masters and the wife has a PhD
OorE4 TIL That serotonin, the neurotransmitter responsible for happiness, can be toxic. When injected into skin it causes extreme pain and is a main ingredient of wasp venom
R5pw8 TIL that Yakov Novichenko was a Soviet officer who saved Kim Il Sung from an assassination attempt in 1946 and thus became the only non-Korean to develop a cult of personality in North Korea.
0MoM TIL when the co-founder of Pirate Bay was arrested he asked to phone his girlfriend so she could watch his house before leaving with the police. The police allowed him to make the call, but instead he used an app on his phone that immediately encrypted all of his computers at his work and home.