› added 7 years ago

95

TIL when Seal Team Six was founded, there were only two other Seal teams. Richard Marcinko purportedly named the unit SEAL Team Six in order to confuse other nations, specifically the Soviet Union, into believing that the United States had at least three other SEAL teams that they were unaware of.

Read more wikipedia.org

via ift.tt

ADQZ4 TIL a mother suffers from hyperlactation syndrome, an over production of breastmilk. Instead of dumping her milk she decided to donate them. She spends 4-5 hours each day pumping milk and in two years she has donated 609 gallons of breastmilk, most going to feeding premature babies.
DG9V TIL that the most densely populated area to ever exist on earth was a largely self-governed, crime-infested block in Hong Kong. Called Kowloon Walled City, it had a population density of 1,255,000 people per square kilometer
E1nB0 TIL During the final hours of the music festival "Woodstock 99" a peace promotion organization handed out candles to the audience to create a candlelight vigil for the final hours of the festival. The audience used the candles to set fire to an audio tower and start bonfires.
polA TIL tech companies often test new products in New Zealand because they’re an ethnically diverse, tech-savvy, and English-speaking nation, yet still relatively isolated. If a product is a flop there, news is unlikely to spread quickly to the rest of the world and damage a company’s reputation.
0d671 TIL that pop artist Andy Warhol had his assistants pee and ejaculate on canvases for some of his art pieces in the 1970's