› added 11 years ago

126

TIL that one day in 1871, Canada was perfectly visible from Rochester, NY. The phenomenon was known as the Rochester Mirage

Read more rocwiki.org

via reddit.com

R5Lw4 TIL of "Belle Chase John Doe", an unidentified 17-year-old suicide victim whose note requested that the police make no attempt to identify him. All records and information on the case was lost during a hurricane.
nerYd TIL that in 2001, researchers removed 2055 brown recluse spiders from a single Kentucky Home. No one living there was ever envenomed
Wk4M4 TIL - There exists a Belgian bicycle road in Germany. It's not that they just own the land, no, the road is fully Belgian territory. It used to be a railroad track, which was appointed to Belgium after the first World War.
eY54 TIL that the US Flag Code states when a flag is no longer in appropriate condition it “should be destroyed in a dignified way, preferably by burning.”
74GZ TIL that people who read books for at least 30 minutes a day live longer than those who don’t read at all.