› added 2 weeks ago

3

TIL in 1988 a 76-yr-old woman was trapped in a lift for 6 days unable to get help because no one else lived in her building. She rationed the groceries she had with her, but was only saved when her niece eventually checked on her. The lift was so small she couldn't lie down & sleep during the ordeal

Read more guinnessworldrecords.com

via reddit.com

d8QQ8 TIL - Not only is the kidnap and murder of DEA agent Kiki Camarena still active he may have been betrayed by a DEA agent in his own office but also a CIA agent who has been named was there at his interrogation and murder.
ELQd TIL a paediatrician was forced to flee her home by vigilantes who confused her job title with “paedophile”
nnkB TIL the top 25 best selling console games of all time are all on Nintento platforms except for Skyrim and GTA
GYlx5 TIL flight hijacking from the USA to Cuba during the 60s/70s was so common, pilots were equipt with detour flight plans and building a fake "Havana airport" in south Florida was seriously considered
RvV8 TIL that s5 0014+81, the biggest suppermassive black hole known, is so bright due to it’s huge event horizon that if it were 100 light years away from Earth (6.31 billion times more distant than the Sun), it would appear just as bright as our host star.