› added 12 years ago

144

TIL a South African woman survived being raped, disemboweled and almost completely decapitated

Read more trutv.com

via reddit.com

rNJO0 TIL BC Place Stadium's original inflated white dome was the world's largest air-supported roof when it was built in 1983. The flexible tarp roof was ripped up in 2007 by snow and wind
9K1m TIL 118 people were charged after 9/11 with looting hundreds of thousands of dollars from ATMs when a computer failure caused by the collapse of the World Trade Center allowed unlimited access to money
oBgQo TIL that the three great minds: Werner Heisenberg, Niels Bohr and Erwin Schrödinger behind Quantum Mechanics all read from and greatly respected the Vedas, the ancient Indian Sanskrit texts on spirituality. Schrödinger even mentioned this in a book he wrote called "My view of the world."
Z8Eap TIL in the 1960s, convincing newly formed African countries to align with the US was crucial in the Cold War but racism towards African diplomats was making it difficult. JFK introduced civil rights bill as a result which eventually led to the Civil Rights Act.
mxYLp TIL that red pigment (carmine) in most foods is made from crushed insects called cochinaels.