› added 1 year ago

290

TIL that the city with the most roundabouts in the world in terms of percentage of intersections is Carmel, Indiana.

Read more themayor.eu

via reddit.com

bnXp TIL that when vandals in Billings, Mont., targeted Jewish families by smashing windows where menorahs were being displayed, thousands of non-Jewish residents displayed menorahs in their own windows in a show of solidarity, bringing a stop to the attacks.
yVyrJ TIL: Josephine Stephenson, the soprano in Tenebrae's "Miserere mei, Deus" YouTube video, wasn’t scheduled to be there
R5oDj TIL that the guillotine was last used in 1977 and wasn't officially outlawed by France in 1981
AN66x TIL Sticky rice was mixed with slaked lime to create a mortar that held the bricks of the Great Wall of China together.
4lrw TIL that in in 1914 Henry Ford published an Anti-Smoking book that was targeted at young people, years before Smoking was widely considered unhealthy.