› added 12 years ago

71

TIL That North Korea imprisons three generations of a Political prisoner’s family.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

BreRb TIL: In Soviet labor camps, prisoners would ingest a condom attached to a length of rubber tubing, fill it up with raw alcohol then smuggle themselves back into the camp. Once there, they would be suspended upside down by the other prisoners and used as a human keg.
yR18 TIL that Warren Buffert is the #1 stock holder of CocaCola and is also the owner of world leading diabetic drugs.
Je0v TIL that Theodore and Eleanor Roosevelt, when staying in the White House, reported sightings or a presence of Abraham Lincoln’s Ghost. Sightings have also been reported by Margaret Truman, Winston Churchill, and Henry Truman.
Aa1o TIL People with many moles have longer telomeres and are more likely to live longer
RJk7 TIL that Alert, Nunavut, a military signals intelligence facility located at the northernmost tip of Canadian soil, is closer to Moscow than it is to Ottawa.