› added 10 years ago

345

TIL Male Victims of Domestic Violence who call law enforcement for help are statistically more likely to be arrested themselves than their female partner

Read more wordpress.clarku.edu

via reddit.com

Oo04 TIL A Finnish sports brand Karhu Sports sold the three stripe trademark to Adidas for (the equivalent of) €1,600 euros and two bottles of Whiskey.
gMW18 TIL the chemical Formamide has been proposed as an alternative to water that could support life with alternative biochemistries to that currently found on Earth. It can be formed with hydrogen cyanide and water, has a large dipole moment, and dissolves almost everything that dissolves in water.
ADwK4 TIL Yasunari Kawabata was the first Japanese author to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature. Although he refused to participate in the militaristic fervor that accompanied World War II, Kawabata suggested that the War was one of the greatest influences on his work
OnjR TIL that there will not be a full moon in February 2018 and that this phenomenon happens approx. every 19 years.
knB TIL that in a kingdom in India it was illegal for women to cover their breasts until the 19th century.