› added 1 year ago

43

TIL Gmail was originally by invitation only.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

jGBR TIL: In the ‘50s, Lee was engaged to Henriette von Rosen, daughter of Count Fritz von Rosen. After hiring private detectives to investigate the actor and demanding references, the Count refused to allow his daughter to marry him unless Lee got the blessing of the King of Sweden. Lee got it.
wo0OJ TIL of an experiment, in which white test subjects participated in the psychological ‘rubber hand illusion’ experiment but were given black arms instead of white ones. Doing this measurably reduced their implicit racial bias.
DoGV TIL It is illegal in 17 countries to deny the Holocaust
VMXlB TIL That when the VOICE hotline was set up earlier this year for reporting criminal activity of illegal aliens, it was flooded with calls reporting space aliens and Bigfoot sightings
5JjB TIL in 1989 a Michigan farmer found a camera attached to balloons in his field. It contained images of what appeared to be a mutilated corpse, sparking a yearlong FBI investigation. It turned out to be footage for Nine Inch Nails’ first music video, filmed 200 miles away.