› added 10 years ago

143

TIL That for every dollar the US owes another country, it is owed 89 cents in foreign debt

Read more nytimes.com

via reddit.com

vPaoD TIL of the "Great Smoke Pall" of 1950, a change in the skies from wildfires in Canada. The wildfires weren't well publicized, so there was speculation that the skies changed due to reasons such as secret U.S. military experiments, supernatural forces, and alien invasion.
M7PmB TIL: At age 17 Neil Armstrong was accepted into MIT but choose Purdue University instead because he liked the Purdue Boilermakers' Quarterback, and because his uncle advised him that he didn't have to go all the way to Cambridge to receive a good education
x6lBw TIL that the first McDonald’s Drive Thru was invented to serve military men who couldn't take off their uniforms off-post
v1R67 TIL the island of Guadeloupe thought it had its own special species of raccoons which became a cultural icon but it turned out they were just regular raccoons
4mgN TIL a Michigan man named Jeremy Grinnell was caught after having propped up a ladder under a couple’s bedroom window and climbing up to watch them having sex. At the time, Grinnell was a local pastor and assistant professor at Grand Rapids Theological Seminary.