› added 1 year ago

53

TIL A close friend of the president Ronald Reagan and an heir to the Bloomingdale’s department store fortune, also known as “father of the credit card”, Alfred Bloomingdale was in a BDSM relationship with his mistress Vicki Morgan, who later was beaten to death with a baseball bat.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

VZ8D TIL that despite widespread disapproval of organ donation after death, in 2014, 17% of all live kidney donations to strangers in the United States were donated by Haredi Jews, even though they are only 0.2% of the US population
4XnNa TIL that in 1953, an Australian Centurion main battle tank survived a nuclear test that was only 500 yards away. Later nicknamed the Atomic Tank, it went on to serve in the Australian military for 23 more years, including 15 months of service in Vietnam.
XEdRR TIL after stealing $65M from Wall Street elite, Bernie Madoff went to jail where he became the prison's hot chocolate kingpin by cornering the hot chocolate market
Lkd0 TIL there is a “heavy equipment playground” in Las Vegas where you can drive bulldozers for fun
D1AYJ TIL the conspiracy theory that US government created AIDS was part of Soviet propaganda to distract attention from its biological warfare program.