› added 4 years ago

200

TIl of anthropologist Nancy Scheper-Hughes, who after researching international black market organ trade, made the "unusual" decision" to share her findings with law enforcement including the FBI, which later resulted in several arrests.

Read more psmag.com

via reddit.com

JYaoQ TIL Film composer Hans Zimmer was a member of the The Buggles who had the first music video on MTV with “Video Killed the Radio Star”
njZG TIL there was a subspecies a human known as homo florsiensis which went extinct only 12,000 years ago. They grew no larger than 4 feet tall and have been nicknamed “hobbits” by scientists.
l7BGa TIL that after The Washington Post was acquired in 2013, one of the proposed ideas was to install a feature that allowed a reader to remove the vowels from an article they didn't enjoy, the idea being that another reader would have to pay to reinstate the vowels.
JZb1 TIL that England still has a High Court of Chivalry. It last sat in 1954 after a 200 year break and its first ruling was to decide whether it still existed.
l76KB TIL as of late 2011 Texas no longer provides executed felons a last meal. The tradition had existed for almost a century, but after a high profile incident where a murderer refused to eat anything the state legislature passed a law to end the practice entirely. Most states instead have a price cap.