› added 4 years ago

114

TIL Iowa Man Tyler Heep won $1.00 from a scratch-off, drove to Lottery Headquarters, and demanded a gigantic novelty check. They wrote him out an oversized check and had him hold it up for a photo in a room set up with a camera and the Lottery logo. Heep used his winnings to buy 1/2 a gallon of gas.

Read more whotv.com

via reddit.com

66Vl TIL The inventor of laughing gas became addicted to chloroform and one day, delirious, rushed out into the street and threw sulfuric acid on people. When his mind cleared and he realized what he had done, he killed himself, blotting out the pain with chloroform.
YX7v TIL Sir Isaac Newton died a virgin.
MJDK TIL: Pot consumption in the form of a milkshake is quite common in India …
XQm6 TIL that during the Gulf War when American forces were faced with extensive trenches of Iraqi soldiers they “opted to use anti-mine plows mounted on tanks and combat earthmovers to simply plow over and bury alive the defending Iraqi soldiers.”
lZGB TIL in 2007, several weeks after complaining of a headache, a 12 year old boy died due to bacteria from an infected tooth invading his brain. Dental care is treated as an option, not a need, and many people suffer and die as a result.