› added 5 years ago

210

TIL the voting age in Austria is 16

Read more independent.co.uk

via reddit.com

wooaP TIL all of Oklahoma's "Unassigned Lands" were settled in one day. At high noon on April 22, 1889, approx. 50k settlers lined up, and a starting gunshot was fired. They raced chaotically to claim the lands (taken back from Indigenous tribes), and by the end of the day, nearly 2M acres were claimed
VZN0 TIL the line “drugs are bad, m'kay?” from South Park’s Mr Mackey, was referenced by a judge in a marijuana related court case who said Mr Mackey’s words were immortal
jNjxN TIL even though Elisabeth II has been Queen for over 66 years she still has only the 39th longest confirmed reign in history (currently the only one in the top 100) and when she reaches 108 in 16 years she'll claim the top spot for herself
1abK8 TIL Gen. Chuck Yeager, a WWII fighter ace, the first human ever to break the speed of sound and considered the greatest test pilot of his generation, is still alive. The last time he surpassed Mach 1 was in 2012, when he was just 89 years old.
mxALP TIL Francis Crick who won the Nobel Prize for discovering the structure of DNA was under the influence of LSD when he first made the discovery.