› added 10 years ago

177

TIL self-taught naturalist Ray Stanford shocked paleontologists by routinely finding hundreds of dinosaur prints in suburban Washington DC where only a handful had been discovered before. He has a unique ability to recognize patterns and abnormalities in rock. He also claims seeing UFOs in clouds.

Read more articles.washingtonpost.com

via reddit.com

p8NZb TIL during the 1992 Los Angeles riots, 1,000 Federal SWAT agents (e.g. FBI HRT, BORTAC, U.S. Marshals SOG, etc.) were deployed to L.A. to serve alongside 3,500 Federal troops in helping state and local forces. It was the largest federal law enforcement response to a riot in any U.S. city in history.
N78K6 TIL about “The Husband Stitch”, a terrifying, yet very real medical procedure where an extra stitch is placed during the suturing repair process after a vaginal birth. The extra stitch is placed to “increase” the pleasure for a male sexual partner, usually per his request.
R7xQ8 TIL River and Joaquin Phoenix spent a significant portion of their childhood in a sex cult known as Children of God and later, The Family International.
7P1O TIL that in 2011, a Caucasian American was arrested after it was discovered he was plotting to blow up a Detroit mosque with 500 people inside. It hardly received media coverage.
D1wXp TIL Davy Crockett left Congress and the U.S. after vehemently opposing Andrew Jackson’s Indian Removal Act.