› added 8 years ago

200

TIL Mount Rushmore has a hidden hallway with granite stairs that was designed to hold American relics and documents

Read more doi.gov

via ift.tt

NXy11 TIL that infamous Wild West outlaw William Bonney aka “Billy the Kid” may have survived until 1950 under the alias Oliver “Brushy Bill” Roberts. On the night The Kid was supposedly shot and killed by sheriff Pat Garrett, one of his deputies exclaimed “You shot the wrong man!”.
rNKWo TIL: Cryovolcanos or "ice volcanos" exist that erupts water, ammonia, or methane below their freezing point to make cryomagma. They form on Icy moons and scientists believe Ceres, Titan, and Ganymede has them.
XEl7Q TIL: 364 Idaho inmates hacked hand-held prison tablets and collectively transferred $225,000 worth of credits to themselves
mxklv TIL Anthony Daniels (as C-3PO, a humanoid protocol droid in the service of General Leia Organa) is the only actor to have appeared in all the episodic films in the Star Wars series.
D89g TIL that by law, only dead people can appear on United States currency