› added 8 years ago

127

TIL over half of America’s Fortune 500 companies started during a depression or recession.

Read more cbsnews.com

via reddit.com

gr6xL TIL Voyager 2 remains the only spacecraft to have ever visited the ice giants Uranus and Neptune
aVNN TIL an Intern at NASA once stole a safe full of moon rocks, sprinkled them on a hotel bed, and had sex with his girlfriend on top of them.
5kWD TIL Hugh Hefner worked as a copywriter for Esquire magazine, from where he resigned in Jan 1952 after being denied a $5 raise. 11 months later, he published the first issue of Playboy, featuring Marilyn Monroe.
nW9Gb TIL the world's largest human poo belonged to a Viking man in the 9th century and was on display in a British musuem. The massive turd was 20 cm in length and 5 cm in width, and was a result of the Viking man being sick as authorities found several hundred parasitic eggs in the poo.
8a7YL TIL that the International Red Cross visited the Concentration Camp Theresienstadt during WWII and - in a complete failure to recognize that the Nazis faked everything - reported life there being nearly "normal". 33,000 people died in Theresienstadt.