› added 2 years ago

237

TIL Haiti is the only country that recognizes voodoo as a religion.

Read more theguardian.com

via reddit.com

KkMB TIL that originaly, the Celcius temperture scale went backwards, with 0°C being boiling and 100°C freezing water
LkdG0 TIL in 1978 a Jumbo Jet bound for JFK airport with400 passengers lost an engine and was about to crash on a crowded Athens neighborhood, but Just 57 meters above ground the pilot managed to safely land on a mountain. Based on flight data gathered afterwards, the plane crashed in every simulation
RZjQ TIL in 2013 300 teenagers broke into a home while the owner was away, caused $20,000 in damages, and some of the parents threatened to sue the owner for outing them on Twitter
R75N8 TIL there are streets in Paris named after each of Napoleon's Marshals of the Empire, his most trusted and skilled commanders. Of the 26 men who served as Marshals, only seven do not have streets named after them. These seven are widely regarded to be traitors to Napoleon, the Republic, and France.
9LG6 TIL Alexis Ohanian said about Digg v4 “You chose to grow with venture capital… this new version of digg reeks of VC meddling. It’s cobbling together features from more popular sites and departing from the core of digg, which was to “give the power back to the people.”