› added 9 years ago

215

TIL that the big US banks own 5 vacant homes for every homeless person

Read more truthdig.com

via reddit.com

5Qxk TIL Japan has a conviction rate of more than 99%
LkjPp TIL in 2005 Sony BGM released copy protection measures on 22 millions CDs that was classified as 'spyware' and installed itself on user's computers without permission causing a wide range of security and provacy concerns
vPlO7 TIL about Air Indiana Flight 216 that crashed on December 13, 1977. Plane was carrying the University of Evansville basketball team, the Evansville Purple Aces. The only member of the Purple Aces who survived the crash was David Furr. Two weeks after the crash, Furr was killed in a car accident.
5Nj8 TIL that Volkswagen was fined by the EPA for using “defeat devices” to cheat emissions tests… in 1974, 41 years before the recent controversy over the same thing.
pa5N TIL that an Oregon survey found that panhandlers outside of WalMart were making more than the employees working inside.