› added 5 years ago

243

TIL of a 12-year-old boy named Santos Rodriguez who on July 24, 1973 was killed in Dallas by a police officer, Darrell Cain, while being interrogated with his brother about "theft of change from a soda machine". Cain was conducting Russian roulette on the brothers to force a confession from them.

Read more dallasnews.com

via reddit.com

D1mv TIL the (hilarious comedy) “Airplane!” was a remake of the 1957 (totally serious) dramatic film “Zero Hour,” and contains many of the same exact lines and scenes.
wOWJ TIL The Black Death killed half of the current Norweigan population in 1349. Because of this, Norway couldn’t sustain a kingdom and they were soon in a union with Sweden and Denmark.
e0XWE TIL that the The White House became one of the first wheelchair-accessible government buildings in Washington during FDR presidency
aaaN TIL that the Korean DMZ accidentally created one of the world’s most well-preserved nature reserves
oBayr TIL Tipu Sultan, ruler of Mysore, established the world's first rocket laboratories in Bangalore during the 18th century. And, in addition, led an economic renaissance which made Mysore the world's most industrialized region with per-capita income higher than The Netherlands and UK!