› added 11 years ago

188

TIL The US government dropped leaflets in Japan during WW2, warning civilians of impending nuclear attacks and advising them to evacuate.

Read more pbs.org

via reddit.com

N7yX6 TIL that of the 77 Olympians competing in the golf tournament at the 1904 Summer Olympics, 74 of them represented the USA and 3 of them represented Canada. Canada won the Gold.
ne9nd TIL Kevin Mitnick, the most famous computer hacker in the world, spent 8 months of a 5 year prison sentence in solitary confinement because law enforcement convinced a judge he had the ability to "start a nuclear war ... by dialing into the NORAD modem via payphone and whistling codes"
6kRQ TIL - 100% of Iceland’s population has the internet, the only country in the world.
pJaG TIL Stanley Kubrick was embarrassed to discover that HAL’s initials were one letter up from IBM, which had helped the production of 2001, “and we would have changed the name had we spotted the coincidence”
nWVxb TIL that On the Road by Jack Kerouac was typed out on a typed out on a continuous reel of paper.