› added 9 years ago

340

TIL Florida law allows people to smash car windows to save pets from overheating

Read more weather.com

via reddit.com

wogVW TIL that from the 1940s through the 1970s, all Ivy League colleges and Seven Sisters colleges (as well as Swarthmore) required all incoming freshmen to pose nude ostensibly to gauge the rate and severity of rickets, scoliosis, and lordosis in the population.
x65xb TIL that in WW1 unarmed Scottish bagpipers would accompany battalions charging at the German trenches
adGJ TIL many Iraqis believed that the Oakleys worn by American soldiers gave them X-ray vision, to see through Iraqi women’s clothes.
yXYw TIL That Marvel has banned comicbook writers from creating new X-Men or Fantastic Four characters, stopped X-Men and FF merchandising, and cancelled the Fantastic Four comic all in order to spite Fox, who owns the movie rights
9176 TIL in 1924, The New York Times published an article entitled “Hitler Tamed By Prison” following Hitler’s release from prison. In it, they state: “It is believed he [Hitler] will retire to private life and return to Austria”