› added 1 year ago

58

TIL about the British post office scandal. Between 1999 and 2015 over 900 subpostmasters where prosecuted for theft and false accounting, when really it was a problem with their accounting software.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

Lk1M0 TIL some people have a fourth cone in their eyes, allowing them to see an estimated 100 million extra nuances of color
0wl85 TIL that the Judge Rotenberg Center, a SPED (Special-needs Education) School in Massachusetts, has been, and still is, using electroshock devices and other violent means to “discipline” misbehaving students.
b9GLp TIL about the siege of the alcazar during the spanish civil war. The defenders held out for 2 months during which the entire castle was reduced to ruins after heavy artillery bombardement and mines. Their commander refused to surrender even when his son was captured and later executed.
yvxJ TIL that horseshoe-crab blood, at $60,000/gallon, is valued to such an extreme degree because it is not only employed worldwide in bacterial contamination tests, it is also used in testings for every single drug approved by the FDA, making it a $50 million/year industry.
wJGW TIL throughout the 1930s, Hollywood allowed the German government to censor films in the U.S. and around the world that were unflattering towards Germany or the Nazis.