› added 10 years ago

86

TIL That people with multiple personality disorder can have different allergies with different personalities.

Read more nami.org

via reddit.com

PYPKw TIL that Stalin hired people to edit photographs throughout his reign. People who became his enemy were removed from every photograph pictured with him. Sometimes, Stalin would even insert himself in photos at key moments in history, or had technicians make him look taller in them.
wPP8 TIL that in 2009, Amtrak police arrested a guy for taking pictures of trains as they pulled into NYC’s Penn Station – he was trespassing and suspicious, they claimed. Why was he there? To take photos for his entry into Amtrak’s “Picture Our Train” contest.
69EYw TIL Walter Ortmann from Brazil holds the Guinness World Record for longest career working in a same company which is 84 years. His age is now 100.
OG7GX TIL that before Charles Fisk started the successful C.B. Fisk organ company, he had unknowingly built equipment Fat Man atomic bomb during World War II.
GAolE TIL that the oldest known writing in the world, Sumerian Cuneiform, is over 5000 years old and only 5-10% of all recovered tablets have been translated.