› added 6 years ago

292

TIL Jeff Bezos's biological father didn't know his son existed until a journalist tracked him down while writing a biography in 2013

Read more businessinsider.com

via reddit.com

Dllr TIL: Libya’s most potent warlord and commander of its armed forces is a US Citizen
LQQ0Q TIL Manuka honey mainly comes from a small area of New Zealand. Due to the cost of the honey going up 20 fold in the last few decades, there are now turf wars with thefts, poisoning of hives and vandalism on the increase.
D1DeY TIL In 1999, a large fragment of a window fell from the CNA Center and killed a woman walking with her child. CNA Financial paid $18 million to settle the resultant lawsuit. Windows had been cracking since it had been built in 1975 and all of the building's windows were replaced in a retrofit.
R545Q TIL about immunity privilege that prevents our own immune system damaging (or expelling) our own eyes, placenta, testicles, brain, fetus and CNS
woLJJ TIL that the Chicago Assyrian Dictionary, a comprehensive accounting of the ancient language, took 90 years to write - 26 volumes were published between 1921 and 2011