› added 4 years ago

321

TIL eight children were stabbed to death in the Osaka school massacre committed by Mamoru Takuma in 2001. He seriously wounded fifteen others and was executed for his crimes.

Read more theguardian.com

via reddit.com

VMZP8 TIL the brains of people under the influence of LSD and the brains of babies resemble each other
VwjG TIL that in 2010 a british policeman drove an Ice cream van into the middle of a riot and played “ice-cream van” music in an attempt to calm the youths. The official report was, ‘humour defused the situation and the trouble stopped’.
oBgWL TIL 99% of internet data travels along a handful of undersea cables
OKag TIL that Bratislava Airport is within an hour’s drive of Vienna (Austria), Brno (Czech Republic), Győr (Hungary), and of course Bratislava (Slovakia), making it the only airport to serve four countries
8agGb TIL a Man Named Edward Cocaine Was Arrested for Drug Possession in Florida.