› added 6 years ago

203

TIL Fred Rogers wore sneakers on his show "Mister Rogers Neighborhood" as they allowed him move around the set without making any noise as opposed to his standard dress shoes

Read more rewire.org

via reddit.com

8e7xa TIL that alma mater roughly translates to a mother’s milk, or “nourishing mother”
yVjOp TIL that until it was demolished, 1% of Greenland’s population lived in a single apartment building, Blok P. The building was said to be "so depressing that it's almost an attraction [to tourists] in itself.”
M8xW TIL Finland and Sweden are the only countries in the world that have earned a medal at every Olympic game since 1908.
R7Y96 TIL of the Zong Massacre. In 1781, a British slave ship threw 130 chained African slaves overboard and claimed compensation under the ship's insurance. They falsely blamed the act on water shortage and lost their case.
gyY9 TIL courts have ruled that it’s legal for police departments to discriminate against smart people when hiring