› added 12 years ago

96

TIL American law used to require the mainstream media to be honest

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

j6n4E TIL If our Sun was of the size of a red blood cell, the Milky Way would be as big as the continental United States
mOgx TIL that on Pinky and the Brain, Brain once let Pinky plan a world domination scheme. During that episode, Pinky became an owner of an Oyster Petting Zoo, the mayor of a small town, the CEO of the largest news empire in the world, and eventually the Chairman of the Federal Reserve.
W7yG4 TIL the telemarketing industry relies on prison labor
78rdM TIL Public DNA records can be used to find distant relatives of criminals, from which investigators can build a family tree and catch said criminals
4XrKR TIL contrary to the popular myth that if a horse's legs were raised on a statue, the rider died in battle, there is no correlation between good position and manner of mortality