› added 7 months ago

109

TIL a Mississippi driver's license does not require a driving test just a written exam.

Read more mississippifirst.org

via reddit.com

b6vlE TIL about Project Plowshare, a project by the US government to allow nuclear explosives for commercial use, such as oil extraction. It was ended over concerns about radiation in the air and fuel extracted being to radioactive to use.
LkG4P TIL that the name Big Ben properly refers only to the bell inside the clock tower, and not the tower itself nor the clock.
16y6W TIL of Serial Arsonist John Leonard Orr - who was also a former fighter and arson investigator who started over 2000 fires over 30 years in California leading to multiple deaths.
mxXNx TIL that the most popular book in the English-speaking world during the Gilded Era 1890s was "Progress and Poverty", a book about how land prices and rents cause economic boom/bust cycles and poverty.
b9D6j TIL researchers have found that the ‘spring forward’ to daylight savings time (i.e. putting your clocks forward an hour) causes a 6% increase in fatal car accidents in the US during the workweek following the adjustment, and results in about 28 additional deaths each year.