› added 7 years ago

88

TIL that in the 1970s the UK forcibly removed the citizens of the Chagos Islands, gassed their pets, leased their land to the US military, and has never admitted wrongdoing

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

WbpN TIL there is a book titled “Everything Men Know About Women” by Alan Francis It is filled with over 100 blank pages and has sold over 1 million copies
N778M TIL the grandson of the inventor of Spam is a well known session guitarist who played on Johnny Cash's cover of Hurt. His name is Smokey Hormel.
7Z4L TIL If everyone lived as densely as the do in Manhattan, the human race could fit in New Zealand.
rNEOd TIL Ostracods, a species of crustacean, produce sperm cells 6 times longer than their own bodies.
9YL16 TIL in the wake of the creepy clown trend, a 2016 "Clown Lives Matter" peace walk was scheduled in Tucson to demonstrate that "clowns are not psycho killers"; but the event had to be cancelled due to multiple death threats to the clowns.