› added 8 years ago

258

TIL during the 51 day siege by the FBI on the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas, the FBI used sleep deprivation to try to force the suspects out. This included around the clock broadcasts of jet planes, screams from rabbits being slaughtered and “These boots were made for walking”

Read more wikipedia.org

via ift.tt

QJW4k TIL: Benjamin Franklin was not behind the idea of daylight savings time. In 1784 he sent a satirical essay to a French newspaper, it has been credited to him ever since.
e0wJb TIL the Aquatic Ape Theory suggests that early hominids lived in water part of the time and accounts for our hairless bodies (streamlined for swimming) our upright, two-legged walking (made wading easier) & our layers of subcutaneous fat, which made us better insulated in water (think whale blubber)
rRKbM TIL that after large animals went extinct, such as the mammoth, avocados had no method of seed dispersal, which would have lead to their extinction without early human farmers.
e0Pgb TIL that the French writer and philosopher Georges Bataille founded a secret society called Acéphale to explore ritualism and human sacrifice, but apparently everyone volunteered to be the sacrificial victim and no one wanted to be the executioner so no sacrifice was ever carried out.
GYpl1 TIL: Inspired by a Renaissance writer who said "a well-rounded man should be an artist, a warrior and philosopher" JASON EVERMAN, original bassist for Nirvana, joined the US military, the Special Forces, studied under monks in Tibet and earned a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy from Columbia.