› added 6 years ago

116

TIL: Newly declassified public records obtained via the Freedom of Information Act shed light on Utah’s Dugway Proving Ground military experiments. Tests involved human exposure to biological and chemical agents while others studied weaponized mosquitos released on civilian populations in the U.S.

Read more fox13now.com

via reddit.com

rNEbx TIL the Beach Boys didn't get their first number-one in the USA ("I Get Around") until their sixth album, "All Summer Long", which is considered one of the first true concept albums
J1PgQ TIL the 1939 film "The Wizard of Oz" initially lost money at the box office. It wasn't until a rerelease in 1949 that its studio finally earned a profit on the film.
5VOKp TIL about Henry Cotton, an asylum director who believed that all insanity was caused by sepsis in other parts poisoning the brain, leading to widespread amputation of his patients' colons, teeth, reproductive organs, and even stomachs in order to "cure" them, with as many as 45% dying as a result
pY8Bp TIL In a UK survey, 35% of adults couldn’t calculate the mode, 31% the median, 28% the mean and 27% the area of a circle.
DA4e TIL Woody Harrelson’s father was an organised crime figure who, in 1982, confessed to the assassination of JFK.