› added 4 years ago

122

TIL Sir Edmund Hillary was the first person to drive overland to the South Pole

Read more stuff.co.nz

via reddit.com

76yb TIL: The “Pinky Promise” originally indicated that the person who breaks the promise must cut off their pinky finger.
Lx1V TIL WWW is the longest possible three letter acronym to pronounce, ordinarily using three times as many syllables than the words it is abbreviating
5dnk TIL American Cheese cannot legally be sold as cheese in America
WgOX TIL that the Stasi(East German Secret Police) used a psychological technique called Zersetzung, which involved things like breaking into a targets house and rearranging things, calling in the middle of the night, and sending dildos.
6XVw TIL that rich people in China hire body doubles to serve their prison sentences.