› added 7 years ago

363

TIL Victoria, Canada still releases all of its sewage into the Pacific Ocean, raw and untreated

Read more nationalpost.com

via reddit.com

a89GJ TIL A disgruntled Chinese man, who was recently single, organized for every odd numbered seat to be bought for the premiere screening of a romance movie on Valentine's Day, forcing couples to sit one seat apart
xrB1 TIL that throughout Alexander Graham Bell’s life, he fought against deaf people’s rights, worked at finding out why they married to stop them, called the deaf a “great calamity”, and even went so far as calling Sign Language “…contrary to the spirit and practice of America-…”
jNZPv TIL the world’s largest populations of tigers exists not in the wild—but in captivity in the United States. With an estimated 5,000 tigers, the U.S. captive tiger population exceeds the approximately 3,200 tigers in the wild.
O0b7 TIL In 2007 a Dutch man walked free in a bestiality case because the sheep didn’t testify in court
rR9Yy TIL that in 1899 the last surviving native Tasmanian recorded a song, the only record of her vanished language