› added 10 years ago

57

TIL that in 1985, a woman suspected of smuggling drugs was detained at LAX. After over 16 hours, she passed 88 balloons filled with cocaine.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

X0XAE TIL in 1962, the US accidentally dropped two nuclear bombs over North Carolina. Fortunately, neither of the bombs detonated.
4kkrw TIL - 3 KISS songs were co-written by Bryan Adams
6wQJ TIL Tennessee Aquarium has a twitter acount that sends out tweets powered by an electric eel
aZB0 TIL that the Giant Squid has a doughnut shaped brain with their esophagus running through the hole in the center. If it swallows anything too big, it could damage its brain.
YgxA TIL: Saddam Hussein was behind the world’s largest bank robbery, about $1 billion