› added 2 years ago

144

TIL Beginning in early 1942, the Canadian government detained and dispossessed more than 90 percent of Japanese Canadians, some 21,000 people, living in British Columbia. They were detained under the War Measures Act and were interned for the rest of the Second World War.

Read more thecanadianencyclopedia.ca

via reddit.com

nB8d TIL Kenneth Dover, one of the 20th century’s top classical scholars, admitted in his autobiography to engineering the suicide of a colleague who bothered him
GYdnJ TIL The human brain weighs 3 pounds. It comprises 60% of fat and is one of the fattest organs in the human body. Human brain has the capacity to generate approximately 23 watts of power when awake. Of the total blood and oxygen that is produced in our body, the brain gets 20% of it.
R7l0l TIL St. Patrick was not Irish at all, but a spoiled and rebellious young Roman citizen living a life of luxury in fifth-century Britain when he was suddenly kidnapped from his family’s estate as a teenager and sold into slavery across the sea in Ireland.
R7Jr6 TIL about Jack Parsons, one of the fathers of rocketry that was involved in an occultist church Thelema, and believed that magic was science that hadn't been understood yet.
oBVbK TIL that Wes Craven placed a torn poster of Jaws in the background of The Hills Have Eyes to communicate to the audience that he believed his movie was much scarier. Later, Sam Raimi places a torn poster of The Hills Have Eyes in The Evil Dead to communicate the same message towards Craven