› added 8 months ago

80

TIL Dennis Rodman changed his image after seeing Wesley Snipes' portrayal of Simon Phoenix in the 1993 sci-fi action flick Demolition Man.

Read more cinemablend.com

via reddit.com

OGG6a TIL of the Battle of Liberty Place in 1874. After a disputed election, the White League attempted to overthrow the government of Louisiana. The insurgency was put down with the help of former Confederate general James Longstreet leading a unit of African-American militia.
QJax6 TIL more Male babies die yearly than Males who are 100. Also, 85ish seems to be real avg life expectancy.
oBAMW TIL the city of Philadelphia, which was where Washington had to live when he was president, had laws in place that said any slave that lived there for more than 6 months would be freed. So, Washington set up a rotational schedule exchanging his slaves between states to prevent their freedom.
oRr78 TIL - theres a rare phenomenon called "ball lightning," which is a highly unusual and misunderstood form of lightning. Ball lightning is characterized by the appearance of a luminous, spherical object that floats in the air for several seconds or even minutes. It's typically the size of a grapfruit
kBbE TIL That because of Hiroshima/Nagasaki/Cold War Testing, steel used for radioactive-sensitive purposes must be harvested from pre-WWII naval vessels: modern steel production is all tainted with radioactivity