› added 7 years ago

146

TIL: The Pentagon orchestrated analysts presented to the media as independent to give favorable coverage to the US war on Iraq and conditions at Guantanamo Bay. Most the analysts even had financial ties to contractors in the war.

Read more nytimes.com

via ift.tt

b98dE TIL that a pre-Spanish conquest tribe in Central America had a religion that included human sacrifice, especially of enemies captured in battle, and they also practiced ritual cannibalism. The Chorotega had books made of deerskin, where they recorded the most important aspects of their way of life.
7rPlM TIL in 2007 GameFAQs had a contest to determine the best video game character. The L-Block from Tetris emerged as the winner.
wLJRE TIL the Psychedelic Frogfish, first scientifically described in 2009, has a number of colorful, kaleidoscopic stripes arranged in a fingerprint pattern. The fish lives among the similar-appearing coral rubble around Ambon Island, Indonesia where it can hide by crawling into narrow crevices.
nWv99 TIL: The punishment of the dogs was an annual sacrifice of Rome where live dogs were suspended from a cross & paraded. In the same procession, Geese were decorated in gold and purple and carried in honor. Because The Dogs didn't Bark and the Geese honked When the Gauls launched a nocturnal assault.
NB48 Til A California judge tossed out a case against a former Navy man caught in a sting orchestrated by the NBC program To catch a predator in part because the show’s producers engage in entrapment.