› added 12 years ago

182

TIL that homeschooling is a serious crime in Germany.

Read more blog.acton.org

via reddit.com

GQw7 TIL During WW2, Winston Churchill temporarily ceded sovereignty of suite 212 of Cartridge’s Hotel to Yugoslavia, so Prince Alexander could be born in Yugoslavian territory
OovMe Today I learned that Saudi high school social studies textbooks were withdrawn in 2017 over an image of Yoda sitting alongside King Faisal.
OG5ma TIL that Central Park was developed by claiming eminent domain and acquiring land previously owned by roughly 1,600 free African-American inhabitants
W86B TIL The Ghost Army, an army of inflatable tanks and rubber planes (also some real tanks) would stage a presence of force through the battlefield, their job was to create chaos and basically scare the Nazis away. It worked.
ne98P TIL black people are less likely to know how to swim due, in part, to historic bans on black people swimming in public pools. In 1964, a motel manager poured acid in the pool to scare away black swimmers who were staging a "swim in."