› added 4 years ago

293

TIL Ford created the iconic Jeep design

Read more jalopnik.com

via reddit.com

wAYM TIL that after Edith Thompson’s hanging in 1923 caused a massive vaginal haemorrhage - later speculated to be a foetus - women sentenced to death by hanging were made to wear special canvas knickers to prevent such things occurring again.
b9wy7 TIL that the Doomsday Clock, a symbolic tool used by scientists to measure how close the world is to a man-made global catastrophe, is currently at “100 seconds to midnight”, the closest it has ever been since its creation in 1947.
rRJ6x TIL over 40% of US adults believe humans and dinosaurs coexisted
Brl1k TIL that Canada is the world's biggest producer (33%) and exporter (80%) of lentils.
Xn0E TIL a New Jersey woman rolled a pair of dice 154 times continuously at a craps table without losing. Her 154-roll winning streak broke a world records. The probability of this occurring were roughly 1 in 5.6 billion.