› added 6 years ago

170

TIL: A man that was falsely imprisoned for 10 years spent most of his time studying law at the library and proving his innocence, later becoming a lawyer to help free other people who have been wrongly convicted.

Read more nbcnews.com

via reddit.com

E1QVP TIL that the Czech Republic celebrates Struggle for Freedom and Democracy Day (17 Nov.) to honor two student protests against Nazis (1939) and Soviets (1989)
awp7y TIL 1 sperm has 37.5MB of DNA information in it. That means a normal ejaculation represents a data transfer of 1587GB in about 3 seconds
ne9BW TIL that in Germany, Denmark and Finland (amongst others), your baby's name must indicate the gender. So if you wanted to name your beautiful baby girl Gary, for example, they'd refuse.
mVWY TIL over 300 people died in a supermarket fire because the owners shut the doors so people wouldn’t leave without paying.
4r4b TIL that a 2014 UC Berkeley survey found that Arts and Humanities majors have most sex, while Science and Engineering majors had least sex, over HALF of the engineering major respondents were virgins