› added 9 years ago

172

TIL fedoras were originally a fashionable piece of clothing for women’s rights activists

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

p8A1A TIL When a 39-year old James Watson lectured at the Lindau Meeting in 1967, he was the second youngest Nobel Laureate to do so. The youngest, Rudolf Mößbauer, Nobel Laureate in Physics 1961, gave his first Lindau lecture at the unusually low age of 36
p8ZkG TIL about Nellie Bly who had herself purposely committed to an insane asylum in 1887 by feigning insanity so that she could investigate the abuse happening in the facility.
8vZV TIL That there was a private-sector post office in the 1800s called the American Letter Mail Company, which delivered letters for half the price the USPS charged, and was later shut down because it’s illegal to compete against the USPS.
YpwrA TIL During the 2021 ice storm in Texas an off-duty paramedic's FJ Cruiser was crushed by a semi truck in a pileup on I-35. The paramedic survived the hit, climbed out of his crushed vehicle, and began applying aid to others in the crash.
wnwJ TIL A man apprehended a drunken police officer and locked him in the back of his own vehicle.