› added 1 month ago

17

Today I learned that cattle mutilations have been happening in North America since at least the 1960s, have happened all across Canada and the US, and are still happening today. Authorities have yet to discover who, or what, is the cause.

Read more history.com

via reddit.com

aoRb TIL the day before the 1996 US presidential election, the NYT Crossword contained the clue “Lead story in tomorrow’s newspaper” – the puzzle was built so that both electoral outcomes were correct answers, requiring 7 other clues to have dual responses
ymEJ TIL that in the 1780s, the Austrian army attacked itself by mistake and lost over 10,000 men
W7kLd TIL that a man who witnessed the Lincoln assassination as a small child actually made a live appearance on television. He died two months after it was filmed.
neLkr TIL: It is completely legal for women to be topless in Colorado, Wyoming, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Kansas and Utah.
95v6 TIL The “polo” shirt was invented by a French tennis player named René Lacoste in 1926. It was designed to be worn with the collar upturned or ‘popped’ to protect your neck from the sun.