› added 6 years ago

112

TIL that lawns cost American an average of 70 hours a year to maintain, causing around 35,000 lawn-mower related injuries per year

Read more earther.gizmodo.com

via reddit.com

oPVR TIL the Florida School for Boys, a reform school shut down in 2011, gained a reputation for abuse, beatings, rapes, torture, and even murder of students by staff. 50 unmarked and undocumented graves have been located on the property using radar.
QWkM TIL Brad Pitt, playing Achilles in Troy (2004), tore his Achilles tendon during production.
yGAw TIL: American POWS Were Killed in Hiroshima At least twenty-three US servicemen were in Hiroshima when the bomb fell. They were prisoners of war, former aviators, held at several locations in downtown Hiroshima.
VMDL4 TIL when Prohibition was enacted in USA, it took less than an hour for the first documented violation of it to happen
wLd0o TIL that in 1910, before the rise of cigarettes, Alton Ochsner was told to watch an autopsy of a lung cancer patient because he might never see the disease again. Later, Ochsner's clinic would help prove the link between smoking and cancer.