› added 5 years ago

211

TIL IBM launched a touchscreen phone with apps in 1993

Read more time.com

via reddit.com

4XZxN TIL during the trial of Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife, their just-appointed lawyers joined with the prosecution and accused their own clients. The trial lasted about one hour. The Ceausescus were sentenced to death and immediately executed.
WOr4 TIL Pluto hasn’t completed a single orbit since it’s discovery in 1930. It will complete the orbit March 23, 2178.
epW4g TIL of Saint Fiacre, the Patron Saint of Proctology and Hemorrhoid Sufferers
D1Xmg TIL that the National Hockey League played a season with only three teams in it.
b9lep TIL John Priest survived the Asturias foundering (1907, damaged in collision), Olympic and Hawke collision (1911), Titanic sinking (1912, hit iceberg), Alcantara sinking (1916, torpedoed), Britannic sinking (1916, hit mine), and Donegal sinking (1917, torpedoed).