› added 12 years ago

147

TIL that the Department of Justice doesn’t count mixed race (half-black half-white) prisoners in their racial drug-related incarceration data

Read more tremblethedevil.com

via bit.ly

KYbKB TIL Ocracoke has a dialect similar to Elizabethan English. Sadly it’s almost extinct.
aoxL TIL An Indian flight attendant saved American lives on a hijacked Pan Am flight by hiding their passports under seat cushions. She died while protecting children from gunfire
P1YjV TIL France charges tire manufacturers a tax of about $1 per tire to pay for tire recycling. The penalty for non payment is $8,000 per tire. This is how you recycle.
jOJj TIL the Mona Lisa used to have eyebrows, but they were rubbed off through years of rough cleaning.
rWn0 TIL An entire town was completely destroyed by a single, massive tornado. Population is currently zero and there are no plans to rebuild.