› added 5 years ago

195

TIL the division sign symbol is called obelus. I guess there's a name for everything...

Read more mathworld.wolfram.com

via reddit.com

6E5d7 TIL Rush Limbaugh avoided the the Vietnam draft due to an anal cyst.
DQ9ED TIL on the May 9, 1969, episode of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, Rogers asked Officer Clemmons, a black policeman played by François Clemmons, if he'd like to cool his feet with Rogers in a child's pool. Clemmons accepted after Rogers offered to share his towel too. Most pools were still segregated.
Mex6A TIL of Active Measures, a Soviet programme of political warfare used mainly to weaken the West by sowing discord amongst allies, fracture alliances in particular NATO and to tarnish the image of the United States in the eyes of the rest of the world.
XmGQ TIL a 2004 meta-analysis found that the D.A.R.E program of drug education is not effective at reducing drug, alcohol or tobacco use.
oBnwo TIL that in 1958, Larry King got into a car accident with JFK. JFK reportedly yelled “How could you? Early Sunday morning, no traffic, I’m parked—how could you run into me?” When King simply offered to exchange information, the Senator agreed he’d forget about it if King promised to vote for him.