› added 8 years ago

280

TIL that it is still legal in 19 states to paddle students as a form of punishment.

Read more mrctv.org

via ift.tt

yQDNX TIL country singer Charley Pride played professional baseball in the Negro Leagues. At one point he and another player were traded to another team for a bus.
b9r49 TIL in 1935, suspected for murder Lloyd Holmes shot himself in the head with a .32 caliber pistol in a boatshed. However, the bullet only knocked him unconscious causing him to fall into the water. He later awoke, climbed into a speedboat, and lead the police on a chase for several hours.
jNPlR TIL Michelangelo's "The Creation of Adam" was completed in 1512 and 478 years later, a physician in Indiana realized that God's shroud is in the shape of the human brain.
YlBv TIL that a Oleg Losev, a Russian inventor sans degree, discovered the LED, as well as negative resistance oscillators, amplifiers and superheterodyne receivers…all 25 years before the transistor. His only job title was technician.
x4ek TIL Grand Theft Auto Enthusiasts ‘Guess Mapped’ the entire GTA V Map Insanely Accurately just by Watching GTA V Commercials/Ads. This was before map release and/or the release of the game.