› added 11 years ago

334

TIL Prisons have yelp reviews

Read more yelp.ca

via reddit.com

Wkvj8 TIL that Theodore Roosevelt drafted a letter during the Spanish-American War requesting that his corps be transferred from Cuba after 4,000 soldiers fell ill. The letter was leaked to an AP reporter, which prompted the McKinley administration to bring the unit home to defuse the bad publicity.
jN9BN TIL in the early 1940's the group, ABCDEF (American Boys' Club for the Defense of Errol Flynn) was formed
gMZXL TIL that Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture is considered the first "diss track", as well as being the first recorded use of firearms in a piece of music. These both stem from the cannons at the song's climax, which were representative of the Napoleonic Army's own cannons being turned against them.
kJaVg TIL that Prime Minister Harold Holt, the Prime Minister who most likely drowned at sea in 1967, is commemorated by the Harold Holt Memorial Swimming Centre in the Melbourne suburb of Glen Iris.
gr9GL TIL in the wake of 9/11, there were more antisemitic hate attacks than anti-Muslim attacks.