› added 1 hour ago

TIL that a restaurant owner in Kentucky intentionally flooded his own restaurant with clean water to protect it from an incoming river flood

Read more wave3.com

via reddit.com

neQpB TIL the insulin pumps used by at least 350K Americans with diabetes (couldn't find the global number) were invented as a direct result of some of the earliest NASA technology from the Apollo program.
WkQV4 TIL fairies in traditional folklore are considered malevolent creatures to be avoided and warded off, rather than the benevolent creatures modern culture suggests.
nennW TIL that in 1997 an Economist at the Mercatus Center Argued that the EPA "not taken into account that smog-free skies would result in more cases of skin cancer"
OVKR TIL: The Beatles did it 30 years before Nirvana. Refusing to properly fake it on Top of the Pops.
Zpo6p TIL In 2001 a wealthy private jet passenger pressured his pilots to disobey flight restrictions, at one point getting into the cockpit to intimidate them, resulting in the deaths of all 18 passengers aboard