› added 10 years ago

186

TIL some Native Americans domesticated coyotes into dogs instead of wolves.

Read more retrieverman.net

via reddit.com

yv5M TIL Los Angeles once had the largest electric rail system in the world, until automobile, tire, and oil companies bought and dismantled it, along with mass transit systems in 44 other US cities. The mass transit systems were replaced with freeways and buses, increasing sales of cars, tires, and oil.
R7wJ9 TIL That the US economy didn't fully recover from its 1929 crash until 1954... 25 years later
RD17 TIL: Australia uses giant stop signs projected on sheets of water to prevent tunnel crashes [x-post from r/cars]
e0eWJ TIL J. R.R Tolkien, Otto Frank (The father of Anne Frank), and Adolf Hitler where all present as foot soldiers at the battle of the Somme.
aJA TIL That physicists won the Nobel prize in 2010 for peeling graphene off pencils with scotch tape