› added 8 years ago

154

TIL New York Subway trains have been running for 24 hours a day since it began operation in 1904

Read more nycsubway.org

via reddit.com

yQ6L8 TIL that one of architect Frank Lloyd Wright's servants took an axe and killed several members of his family.
WkWEd TIL: Bradley Nowell, the lead singer of the band “Sublime”, died on May 25th, 1996 from an accidental heroin overdose. He was 28 years old and had gotten married a week before his death.
RkV7 TIL Twister was originally accused of being ‘sex in a box’ by its competitors in 1966.
xVPg0 TIL that Aaron Burr once set out to write an official history of the Revolutionary War. When George Washington found out, he blocked then-Senator Burr's access to the National Archives.
WkDLY TIL about an emotion liget(native to a tribe in Philippines), it doesn't have an exact translation in English, Renato Rosaldo(who went to live with that tribe along with his wife for some time in 1967) couldn't descibe it to westerners at first but then he felt it when his wife died.