› added 10 years ago

163

TIL that there’s an American family tried to live without anything made in China for one year. They failed.

Read more reuters.com

via reddit.com

Y7EA TIL Jenna Jameson Worked At Disneyland Before Starting Her Porn Career
J448 TIL courtroom tv judges aren’t actually presiding over civil cases. They’re acting as arbitrators over dramatizations of legal cases that are resolved through a form of binding arbitration.
7revp TIL that Iceland, which is a country that strongly supports firearms, hasn't had a murder since 2007
ZN04 TIL there was a massive solar storm in 1859 that sparked fires in telegraph offices. Were a storm of that size to hit today, it would knock out power grids for months or longer.
P1e7V TIL: Irish playwright Brendan Behan wrote a song called 'the laughing boy' about Irish revolutionary Michael Collins. Later it was translated into Greek and became the unofficial anthem against the military junta.