› added 11 years ago

64

TIL in 1800s in Wyoming, cattle barons hired killers to kill small settlers, when sheriff posse cornered them, the US President ordered the 6 th cavlary to rescue the trapped killers from law enforcement.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

WkZyL TIL of Michael Fay, an American citizen who visited Singapore in 1993 and was sentenced to six strokes of the cane for vandalizing cars.
YpkNW TIL that the moon has "moon-quakes" and because the moon has a smaller core than earth, this causes it to ring like a bell
b6vYZ TIL that hurricanes cannot form within 300 miles of the equator, due to a lack of the Coriolis effect, which causes winds to curve to the right, in the Northern Hemisphere, and to the left, in the Southern Hemisphere, because of the Earth’s rotation.
mx4ZP TIL there is a family of birds called Honeyguides that are known to lead humans to beehives. The Honeyguides eat the discarded grubs and beeswax once the humans have taken the honey.
16RxX TIL Kansas City isn't in Kansas at all but rather in Missouri. The town used to be called Kansas but soon after the city's incorporatation the territory of Kansas was established so they renamed the town Kansas City