› added 4 years ago

115

TIL there's a school students call "the Christian Hogwarts"

Read more bssm.net

via reddit.com

nWXgW TIL third-degree burns are not the worst burns; the scale goes up to 6
0w06y TIL that after its independence and the freeing of its enormous slave population, France forced Haiti to compensate slave owners for the theft of property (the slaves), a debt lasting over 100 years which was paid off finally on 1947.
bajj TIL that Febuary the 9th, 1964, almost half (45%) of all US television viewers tuned into the same program: The Ed Sullivan Show and The Beatles
OoZ01 TIL that the "nut" in "Honey Nut Cheerios" used to be ground almonds in the recipe, but it's now made from natural almond flavouring which is typically manufactured not from almonds, but from peach pits.
m1ro TIL that in 2009 a California police officer meant to use her taser on an unruly man in the back seat of her cruiser, but accidentally drew her gun. She shot the guy in the chest and killed him.