› added 12 years ago

174

TIL last year more members of The Army committed suicide than died in combat.

Read more usnews.nbcnews.com

via reddit.com

LJjm TIL In WW2, The Allies estimated German average monthly tank production using statistical analysis of their serial numbers. They were off by one.
4QWw TIL that your brain stops time for up to half a second when switching focus, most commonly noticed looking at the second hand of a clock.
awbwb TIL Dolly Parton entered a lookalike contest and lost!
E15bV TIL That Soviet TV sets were so faulty and defective, that they would occasionally explode and start house fires which would sometimes kill Soviet citizens
P1anE TIL that 4 US presidents - Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, Grover Cleveland and William McKinley, all worked for the same company, which is still alive today and listed on Nasdaq