› added 6 years ago

108

TIL Denzel Washington’s character in Training Day was heavily based on real life corrupt cop Rafael Perez, an LAPD officer who pled guilty multiple crimes and is even suspected by some to be the man who murdered the Notorious B.I.G

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

1lYX TIL Hyenas are more closely related to felines than canines.
XEyDX TIL: Humans have a faster reaction time to audio cues than visual cues. There is also a significant difference between male and female reaction time, as well as between sedentary and regularly exercising individuals.
Xm9r TIL J.R.R. Tolkien typed the entire “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy while using only two fingers. It ran to over 1,200 pages and took him 14 years.
ZBlR TIL of Joseph Bazalgette, a civil engineer who built an extensive sewer network in London which was instrumental in curbing cholera, typhus and typhoid epidemics. Later he started cleansing Thames.
ZDd4 TIL to justify the > $1 trillion spent on counter terrorism since 9/11, homeland security would have had to prevent more than 4 dozen deaths and $400 million dollars of damage from terrorist attacks in the US per day… NOT counting the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.