› added 9 years ago

131

TIL that Canadian citizens can send mail to various government offices postage free

Read more canadapost.ca

via reddit.com

NBw1 TIL that Irena Sendler, a nurse who secretly rescued 2500 children from the Warsaw Ghetto during the Holocaust, and was viciously beaten by the Gestapo for her actions, was nominated for the Nobel Prize in 2007, the year it was awarded to Al Gore.
AD9ma TIL about the proposed second bill of rights by Roosevelt that would include: medical care, a decent home, a good education, a job etc.
m1a4R TIL Glen Hansard dated a singer named Markéta Irglová who he “discovered” and managed since she was 15 and he was 33. Started dating at 18 and 36. He later said “"I had been falling in love with her for a long time, but I kept telling myself she's just a kid"
8e7WK TIL that the 188 tallest mountains on earth are in Asia. The 189th tallest, Aconcagua, is in Argentina.
ADvPx TIL Steve-O went to a clown college that is harder to get into than Harvard.