› added 9 years ago

153

TIL Canada has been sued more times through free-trade provisions than any other developed country, mainly by the US and Mexico for implementing environmental legislation.

Read more huffingtonpost.ca

via reddit.com

DQQeP TIL: that in Hawaii some wallaby escaped the zoo in 1916 and a population of feral wallaby continue living on Oahu even today.
5Vew9 TIL that Titanic crewman Herbert Pitman made an attempt to row his lifeboat over to rescue people in the water, but was overruled by the other occupants of the boat, who were worried about people swarming them and duly complied. Pitman said that this haunted him throughout his life.
woVkJ TIL that Laura Branigan's "Spanish Eddie" song is about a real person, an NYC gangster and then a city Youth Services Agency agent, who successfully organized and almost succeeded in establishing a truce between most of the city street gangs to reduce violence, and got shot while realizing the plan.
woVd6 TIL that Sirhan Sirhan, convicted assassin of Robert Kennedy, was granted parole last year and almost got out but Governor Newsom blocked his release in January 2022.
A1MB TIL The Iconic “Do you know where you are?! You’re in the Jungle Baby!” line was actually yelled at Axl Rose by a Homeless man in New York