› added 2 years ago

83

TIL I learned that a Brass Rat is a special ring given to MIT graduates. It is redesigned each year by a committee of MIT students.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

JYGP4 TIL - "Philanthropist" Robert F. Smith was involved in the largest tax evasion case in US history. He "willfully failed to report" over $200 million in income and he signed a nonprosecution agreement. He paid a fine of $139 million and cooperated with investigators.
4koOa TIL there was a deadlier martime disaster than the Titanic: the Sultana. Carrying 6 times the passengers than it was alotted, the Sultana sank on the Mississippi river killing over 1,100 Union Soldiers. The tragedy did not receive much attention as it was days after the assassination of Lincoln.
P1L6L TIL that children were protected for the first time from overwork at the factories only in 1833, with UK’s Factory Act which prohibited the employment of children under nine, limited their working hours, and insisted they should receive schooling.
paB8 TIL Steve Jobs is buried in an unmarked grave
dDmeQ TIL virtually all of the communion wafers that are distributed in churches in the United States are made by a single for-profit company.