› added 11 years ago

132

TIL China had what is believed to be the first libertarian intellectual, Lao-tzu. He was a personal acquaintance of Confucius and believed government’s primary function was “inaction.”

Read more mises.org

via reddit.com

grlM7 TIL that when Hewlett-Packard (HP) began selling computers in 1966, it wanted to do so without using the HP name. HP turned the corporate logo upside down to look like "DY", and called the new computer business "DYMEC".
8erJX TIL Australia is "wider" than the Earth's Moon, but not "bigger" than it
XQ66 TIL That Seann William Scott’s mother likes to go into Best Buy and ask “Do you have American Pie? I’m Stifler’s mom”.
78x TIL the arrow in the Arabic FedEx logo points to the left
jNyaj TIL of the amazing and fearless POW dog Judy, who uplifted and protected British prisoners captured by the Japanese during WW2. She skirted death multiple times and survived the war. Her “master” built her a granite memorial inscribed with her life story when she died of old age