› added 10 months ago

50

TIL that during a live firing demonstration 25 spectators were killed and 71 wounded when the pilot mistook them for dummies

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

VM1rD TIL Carrie Fisher's ashes are contained inside a giant novelty Prozac pill
LQ0Er TIL that when Johannes Rebmann, the first European to see Mount Kilimanjaro, published his discovery in 1849, it was dismissed as a malaria-induced hallucination because it was believed that snow at this latitude was impossible. It took 12 more years for scholars to accept the mountain's existence.
7W6O TIL Drinking lemonade helps keep kidney stones from forming. Useful if you are prone to kidney stones.
kJBWB TIL about The Pig Precinct. In 1972 after the Iowa state supreme court ordered legislative redistricting a new district was created that did not have any human residents, just pigs. They were the only full-time residents housed in an experimental animal disease laboratory.
xaBD TIL a Massachusetts court ruled that a sandwich must contain two slices of bread, thus legally barring tacos, burritos, and quesadillas from being called “sandwiches.”