› added 5 years ago

192

TIL in 1887 a reporter named Nellie Bly talked her way into an insane asylum in New York and published her experience after ten days in the asylum. She claimed many of the patients seemed completely sane and the conditions were horrid. This led to NYC budgeting $1,000,000 to care of the insane.

Read more digital.library.upenn.edu

via reddit.com

neJDB TIL that Boko Haram caused the disappearance of as many as 10,000 boys before he kidnapped the 300 girls that elicited global sympathy
l7op1 TIL Arctic foxes strongly prefer to dive in a north-easterly direction. They are more likely to make a kill if they jumped along the invisible axis, especially when their prey was hidden by snow. If they pounced to the north-east, they killed on 73% of jumps compared with 18% in other directions .
aGWM TIL after Sports Illustrated published its “Bag It, Michael” cover story about his lackluster baseball career in 1994, Michael Jordan cut off all official communication with the magazine, even to this day
LOXV TIL that Guy Ritchie challenged Jason Statham to impersonate an illegal street vendor and convince him to purchase fake jewelry as an audition for what would be Statham’s debut in Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998).
kOnOB TIL that Canadian country folk singer and songwriter Taylor Mitchell was killed by a pair of coyotes while hiking in Cape Breton Highlands National Park. Her death is the only known fatal coyote attack on an adult as well as the only known fatal coyote attack on a human ever confirmed in Canada