Home
Random
Trending
Today
19
posts added
Search
› added
6 months ago
14
TIL that 10% of Japan's population is now aged 80 or older
Read more
bbc.com
via
reddit.com
POZe
TIL Moses Fleetwood Walker was actually the first African-American to play in organized baseball. Walker broke the Color-Barrier in 1884 and played one season as the catcher of the Toledo Blue Stockings.
4XlAa
TIL there's people in the world that don't rinse the dishes after wash them with detergent.
6P8w
TIL that the 1950’s Cadillac Eldorado had a mini bar in the glove compartment
0wBLN
TIL of Laura Bassi, the first woman to have a doctorate in science. She was privately tutored till she was 20, when the archbishop of Bologna noticed her talent and became her patron. She earned her doctorate at 21 by defending 49 theses before professors of the University of Bologna.
x6awk
TIL that after the 1955 Le Mans disaster, which resulted in the deaths of ~84 people, several countries like France, Switzerland, Spain banned motorsports. Although the other countries lifted the ban within the next year, Switzerland lifted the ban only in May 2022, 67 years later