› added 11 years ago

107

TIL: The suicide rate for the Army is up 15% over last year. For the Marines its up 28%.

Read more justiceforvets.org

via reddit.com

P4vn TIL shortly after the 9/11 terrorist attacks a memo was distributed to radio stations with a list of songs deemed ‘lyrically inappropriate’; the list contained 165 suggestions with one reading “Every Rage Against the Machine Song”.
VBnRk TIL Captain Kirk never even said the phrase "Beam me up, Scotty"
awwn0 TIL that the sting of the tarantula hawk wasp is so painful the medical advice is to lie down and scream
PY5dZ TIL that the Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski, was arrested in part because of his use of the phrase "You can't eat your cake and have it, too." The odd phrasing showed up in both his manifesto and his personal letters.
BgW4k TIL the city of Cincinnati, Ohio, took its name from Roman hero Cincinnatus and also the Society of the Cincinnati, a group committed to the virtues of the Roman hero.