› added 7 years ago

123

TIL that 71% of counties in the Great Plains have recorded population declines since 1980, the highest rate of any region in the United States.

Read more publicpolicy.wharton.upenn.edu

via reddit.com

8e9jV TIL Kate Middleton’s hands were branded with a cypher of her name when she was a baby. Check your hands! If you see any tiny dots on the back of your hand or dashes across your knuckle, it could be a cypher using ASL for your name.
1arXd TIL during the opening of 1936 Olympic,Adolph Hitler made a speech which was broadcasted in 41 countries.Due to the high frequency of the signal,it escaped the earth ionosphere.Carl Sagan wrote his book Contact,on alien-human encounter based on this platform that alien heard Hitlers voice first.
o6eW TIL Scotland Yard was originally built upon the location where body parts of an unsolved murder of a woman were found, whose uterus was expertly removed, a particular trait of the depraved killer Jack the Ripper
E15Qx TIL that due to New Zealand's remoteness, it was the last large habitable land to be settled by humans. During its long period of isolation, New Zealand developed a distinct biodiversity of animal, fungal, and plant life
RR88 TIL Sony once sued itself; RIAA(partially controlled by Sony Music) sued Launch.com(owned by Sony’s Tech & Business unit), meaning that the Music Dept. somehow sued it’s Tech Dept.