› added 10 years ago

63

TIL the worst shooting in an English speaking country was in Australia in 1996, with 35 dead and 23 wounded, it ultimately led to a gun ban.

Read more m.wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

kDYW TIL the band “Twenty One Pilots” got their name from the book “All My Sons” by Arthur Miller. In the book, a man sends out faulty airplane parts and causes the death of 21 pilots in World War II
BgQZW TIL That more creative people report greater trauma in their childhood.
Z89kv TIL the near-extinction of the American bison was a deliberate plan by the US Army to starve Native Americans into submission. One colonel told a hunter who felt guilty shooting 30 bulls in one trip, "Kill every buffalo you can! Every buffalo dead is an Indian gone.”
awLeb TIL Aroldis Chapman holds the record for fastest pitch at 105.1 MPH. When Nolan Ryan played they clocked pitches at 10 feet from the plate, now they clock it at release point. Had Ryan pitched his record 100.9 today it would have clocked at around 108 MPH and he would have regularly thrown 106-107.
epMvJ TIL 92% of Cavalier King Charles Spaniels have skull malformations that squish part of their brain into their spinal column.