› added 8 months ago

38

TIL the first president of the United States of America was called “Gerge”

Read more pl.wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

78jx TIL In 1964 a 17yr old set the world record for staying awake and after 10 days with no sleep could still beat his minder at pinball.
oByOr TIL that legendary crime fighter Eliot Ness was promised by Al Capone that $2,000 would be on his desk every Monday morning if he turned a blind eye to his gang's bootlegging activities ( $33,000 a week in 2018 adjusting for inflation). Ness refused the bribe, was penniless when he died in 1957.
QJERa TIL NASA has released ‘spooky’ sounds from space for Halloween.
5Egr TIL that in 2013, trades were registered in Chicago within two milliseconds of a Federal Reserve announcement to raise interest rates. This was later proven to be insider trading, as that information would take three milliseconds to get to Chicago at the speed of light.
e0RQ5 TIL During WWII Hitler ordered the British town of Blackpool be spared from bombing as he intended it to be his personal holiday resort after Germany had won the war