› added 1 year ago

155

TIL that in 2015, a tourist in Hong Kong was beaten to death when his tour group was forced to shop in a jewellery store

Read more bbc.com

via reddit.com

MePN8 TIL of Alfred Holmes, one of Gibraltar's "Officers-in-Charge of the Apes." From 1913 to 1991, these soldiers cared for Gibraltar's macaque population. Holmes fed, nursed, and even trained them. Using eye signals and subtle head movements, he stopped the macaques from taking food offered by tourists.
QNWG6 TIL: As many as a quarter million Chinese citizens were executed by Japanese forces as retaliation for helping the pilots that crashed landed during the Doolittle raid.
DQbp TIL the band “Limp Bizkit” chose their name to turn away people who judge music by the name of the artist.
LkxaV TIL Two nuclear weapons lay on the Arctic seabed inside a sunken submarine.
BrG1L TIL that there was a complete ban of gum from 1992 to 2004 in Singapore. Since 2004, they have allowed dental gum to be imported in, because the US asked for it in a trade deal. The ban was to the annoyance of chewing gum being everywhere .