› added 2 years ago

199

TIL It is illegal to leave your car unlocked in Australia

Read more criminaldefencelawyers.com.au

via reddit.com

1Nj4 TIL that during the Holocaust, Polish doctors Eugene Lazowski and Stanisław Matulewicz saved 8,000 Jews by creating a fake Typhus epidemic. The Germans quarantined the area instead of risking outbreaks by sending them to concentration camps.
nPX7 TIL that Jackie chan sang “I’ll make a man out of you” in Chinese in mulans extra footage
8a5bb TIL Ikea's friendly "touch and try" showrooms have worked too well in China. Customers napped on sofas and beds and senior groups have taken over the food court without ordering anything. The Ikea stores in China tried a "no-napping policy" but people ignored it and still napped in the store.
mggE TIL the famous Inca site of Machu Picchu was constructed less than 50 years before Christopher Columbus sailed to the New World
mxrR TIL that in 2000, media mogul Ted Turner donated $35 million to cover UN dues owed by the US, which the Republican controlled US Congress refused to pay.