› added 11 years ago

281

TIL a nine year-old boy robbed a New York bank in 1981 and got away with $118.

Read more nytimes.com

via reddit.com

v1bkr TIL that in 2018, an 18-year-old memorized the order of a shuffled deck of 52 cards in 12.74 seconds.
DZXJ TIL in 1866 Liechtenstein had an army of 80 men and fought during the Austro-Prussian war, they suffered no injuries or deaths and returned home with 81 people because they made a new Italian friend. The army was disbanded soon after and they haven’t had an army since.
699Nw TIL that when deaf people experience stroke-related brain damage, they often lose the ability to sign in remarkably similar ways to the different forms of linguistic aphasia (difficulty speaking, forming words, sentences being nonsensical)
grZa8 TIL When a cat (or another animal) makes funny grimace aka it looks like something smells. It is called as "Flehmen response".
QPZa TIL that the way Walter White “cooked” meth in Breaking Bad would not make a nearly 100% pure form of meth. In fact it would be closer to 50%.