› added 1 year ago

55

TIL about Krystal Surles, a 10-year-old girl who survived getting her throat slit by serial killer Tommy Sells and was able to draw a sketch that allowed Sells to be identified and caught.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

xk0B TIL that as far back as 1928, Russia was building analog water computers that were used for highly complex computations, and remained in use up into the 1980’s.
xVXJ0 TIL Among OKcupid users, men ranked women's attractiveness in an almost perfectly even distribution, and the majority as average. Women ranked 80% of men as worse looking than average, and all the site's male founders as "significantly worse looking."
R59o1 TIL that grapes and raisins are highly toxic for dogs
yQjyX TIL that George Washington is the second richest American president in history, worth 580 million when adjusted for inflation.
GYRrQ TIL 1-800-COLLECT was so popular in the 90s that AT&T launched a competing service, 1-800-Operator. However AT&T later discovered many people misspell Operator with 'er' instead of 'or' at the end, and that unfortunately, 1-800-COLLECT owned the misspelled number and had been taking their customers.