› added 4 years ago

121

TIL of a Congressman who, while defending a murder suspect, accidentally killed himself while recreating a scenario where the victim could have accidentally killed himself. The defendant was acquitted

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

nZJW TIL when a Pacific tribe watched the US military perform drills to prepare for supply planes, the tribe believed it to be a religious ritual and built their own runways, coconut headphones, wooden radio towers, and marched around like the soldiers, in hopes of having a plane drop supplies off.
7KVM TIL that in 2012, JC Penny implemented a “Fair and Square” policy that did away with sales prices and coupons that fool customers and instead priced everything at what it’s actually worth. Customers hated it, the CEO was fired, and the deceptive pricing was quickly reinstated.
Ypwnv TIL The Lake at the Bellagio Las Vegas is serviced by a freshwater well that was drilled decades prior to irrigate a golf course on the site. The lake actually uses less water than irrigating the Golf Course did.
6EDGY TIL about Yola, a language that developed from Middle English and was spoken in Wexford (Ireland). It went extinct in the 19th century and contained elements from Norman French, Welsh and Flemish.
wPeP TIL the world’s oldest joint-stock corporation, the East India Company, was also the longest surviving, spanning 274 years, run by the wealthy merchants, beyond government control, had its own private armies and ruled a sub-continent by means of political and economic subjugation.