› added 6 years ago

246

TIL that Woodrow Wilson re-segregated Princeton University when he was the school's president

Read more slavery.princeton.edu

via reddit.com

VMa7Z TIL that a boy in the UK was born with only 2% of his brain. His parents were told he would live in a vegetative state, if at all; they had even prepared his funeral before he was born. By age 3, the boy's brain had grown to 80% the normal size. Now 9, he can read and do math.
7meM TIL that in 2007 China tested a missile and shot down one of their own satellites, accidentally creating 2,087 pieces of space debris on crazy orbits, all of which are now required to be tracked to avoid space collisions
WkN5d TIL about Zofia Rydet, a Polish photographer who, at age 67, decided to try to shoot the interior of every home in Poland. Over the final 19 years of her life, she shot 20,000 images. She said, "The simplest, most ordinary documentary picture becomes a great truth about human fate."
Gln1 TIL there is a huge military training complex in California that consists of 11 fake towns, real iraqi civilians, oh and it allows spectators.
KYmG4 TIL the 1970s band ABBA wore tax-deductible stage clothing, which under Swedish law had to be so extravagant or unusual that they couldn't reasonably be worn in everyday life. Band member Björn Ulvaeus in 2014 said, "Nobody can have been as badly dressed on stage as we were."