› added 9 years ago

130

TIL: Kim Jong Un was voted Time Magazine’s person of the year in 2012 after 4chan users hijacked the magazine’s online polls

Read more newsfeed.time.com

via reddit.com

Dm4J TIL It is predicted the Oil Age will end in 2059
5gyB TIL Ray Bradbury wrote a short story where a time traveling safari hunter accidentally crushes a butterfly under his boot in the Cretaceous period, thereby changing the course of history millions of years later. He wrote the story two decades before the term “Butterfly Effect” first came into use.
ydlV TIL A guy named Joshua Abraham Norton declared himself Emperor of the United States and the citizens of San Francisco went along with it.
6EAmX TIL a World War 2 German interrogator’s work is one of the most famous examples showing torture does not work. His method yielded an extremely high success rate and was based on kindness, empathy, and hospitality
e1M4 TIL a half-jewish man was used in Nazi recruitment posters and dubbed “the ideal German soldier”, before being kicked out for being too Jewish.