› added 2 months ago

11

TIL: There was a plot to assassinate Jimmy Carter in 1979. The assassins names were Raymond Lee Harvey and his partner Oswald.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

84eV TIL the German word for ‘birth control pill’ is 'antibabypille’
gMEjX TIL the Washington Monument contains a piece of the Parthenon, sent by Greece as a memorial stone during the Monument's construction.
ADLNa TIL that Anne Dudek's character on Friends and HIMYM shared the same fate: broken up by the guy she dated on her birthday
ldJA TIL there’s a town in Norway (Rjukan) that’s in shadow for three full months of the year. As a result, townspeople have built giant mirrors on the mountainside to reflect natural light on their homes.
lopMG TIL Someone really used to live like Robinson Crusoe