› added 6 years ago

64

TIL The Code of Hammurabi (1754 BC) has 282 laws enscribed on stone. It includes the concept of "eye for an eye" and "tooth for a tooth" - more than 500 years before the Torah.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

wLZOE TIL Blood donors in Sweden get a text message whenever their blood saves someone's life
n8yr TIL Koalas sometimes hug trees to stay cool, because some tree species can be over 5 degrees cooler than the air during hot weather
4EMR TIL after a girl in his community was killed by a red-light runner, this 74 year old Chinese man spent an entire day hurling bricks at bad drivers. With his neighborhood cheering him on, he smashed over 30 red-light runners’ cars before the police asked him to stop, no charges were filed against him
Orn7 TIL that the London Bridge in Lake Havasu, Arizona is the same bridge that spanned the Thames river in London, England, relocated in 1968.
MeJ4A TIL That Steven Spielberg's father Arnold Spielberg, who is still alive at 103, created the first computer-controlled "point of sale" cash register