› added 4 years ago

141

TIL that glass blocks the wavelength of light required for the body to synthesize Vitamin D.

Read more independent.co.uk

via reddit.com

aw61o TIL Bob Marley’s son, Damien, bought a 77,000 square foot prison in California for $4.1 million to convert into a medical weed growing facility. The operation has created over 100 jobs and generated millions in tax revenue for the state.
E1DM7 TIL of a woman named Olympe de Gouges who advocated for equal rights between men and women in revolutionary France. She was guillotined.
neEK9 TIL the reason why the majority of police uniforms in the U.S. are blue is a result of the civil war. After the war had ended, there was a surplus of blue uniforms which got repurposed for police officers. The color became associated with policing.
5Yb19 TIL that more than 30% of Indonesian children smoke a cigarette before the age of 10, thanks to Big Tobacco deliberately targeting youth in developing countries
ANZKx TIL of the ship MS Hans Hedtoft which hit an iceberg in January 1959. After sending urgent SOS messages, the ship then sunk in a matter of hours with all 59 aboard perishing. It is the most recent ship to have been sunk with casualties by an iceberg.