› added 6 years ago

417

TIL Seattle, Washington's North Transfer Station waste collection plant has a viewing room and playground on its premises

Read more kuow.org

via reddit.com

5Zxp TIL China bought their first aircraft carrier by sending an official in a gambler disguise to deceiving the Ukraine officials into thinking he would use the carrier solely as a floating casino.
MegRm TIL in Japan, you can hire a handsome man to show up at your place, watch a sad video with you until you cry, then wipe your tears for you.
7ERP TIL Chinese infants were used in performance-enhancement pills
7rrlP TIL that the Marquis de Sade, from which we derive the term "sadism," actually played a part in inciting the French revolution: While a prisoner in the Bastille, he screamed from the window of his cell that prisoners were being murdered there. Ten days later, the Bastille was stormed.
dBb9 TIL in 1952 Kent sold cigarettes with an asbestos filter claiming it was healthier than regular smoking