› added 10 years ago

107

TIL “Rebellion to Tyrants is Obedience to God” was Benjamin Franklin’s suggested motto for the Great Seal of the U.S.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

40wa TIL American ISPs now have the lowest customer satisfaction of any industry, including airlines
YpLpA TIL in WW2, Britain released over 50,000 weather balloons trailing wire to drift over Germany and shortcircuit high voltage wires.
EbeX TIL: U.S. ranked 49th in Freedom of Press. Down from 17th in 2002.
By4y TIL Molly Pitcher manned a cannon during the Revolutionary War when her husband fainted from heat stroke or injury. She didn’t back down, even when a cannonball shot the skirt from between her legs.
p8yAA TIL that the assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan in 1981 was motivated by a man trying to impress actress Jodie Foster, who was 18 at the time