› added 10 years ago

130

TIL: Britain does not allow reporting on campaigns while polls are open, and limits coverage to factual, noncontroversial accounts, or the weather.

Read more bbc.co.uk

via reddit.com

nWywY TIL the emergency number in Mozambique is 119, or in other words: 911 backwards.
kJvme TIL Aviation pioneer Alberto Santos-Dumont committed suicide because of the sight of airplanes flying over his city to bomb a nearby airport
0w9Wp TIL NASA's Opportunity Rover has been in operation on Mars since January, 2004...a few weeks before Mark Zuckerberg launched the social networking site Facebook.
Zp5pQ TIL 17th century England had twerking ("Moulding Cockle Bread" dancing) and moral panics about twerking.
Md50 TIL Reporter Geraldo Rivera was kicked out of Iraq after drawing a map in the sand giving details of US locations and future plans during a live broadcast.