› added 1 year ago

67

TIL That, as of 2016, the video of the on air suicide of Christine Chubbuck still existed and was in the possession of the widow of the late TV station owner Chubbuck had worked at. The video has not been seen since 1974.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

P1JdZ TIL about McNamara's Morons and Project 100,000. Very low IQ and disabled men recruited and used as cannon fodder in Vietnam. They died at three times the rate of other soldiers. Over 350,000 men involved.
16A5X TIL that Edward Teller, the physicist who advocated for Oppenheimer to lose his security clearance suggested using nukes to create artifical harbours, fracking oil and preventing hurricanes
NXZ4E TIL in 2014, a recently dumped Shanghai man and some friends deliberately booked every other seat in one of the city’s movie theaters, so couples could not sit together during their Valentine's Day movie date.
QeZX TIL That killing an opposing boxer in the original Olympic Games resulted in the dead boxer being declared the winner
6E6EW TIL that "right-wing" and "left-wing" labels originated from the French Revolution, in which anti-royalists sat on the left of the French National Assembly hall and pro-royalty sat on the right.