› added 1 month ago

14

TIL Peru's Challapalca prison could get the Guinness World Record of the world's highest altitude prison.

Read more infobae.com

via reddit.com

QJ1wd TIL about Eben Byers a man who drank radioactive water for 3 years in the 1920's and 30s and rotted himself to death from the inside out.
XwKj TIL Steven Spielberg was thanked more often than God in Oscar acceptance speeches.
P1jEE TIL that Michael Gambon was such a private person that when asked by a reporter about his wife he replied "What wife?" He later had an affair with a woman 25 years his junior and had 2 kids with her, but bequeathed nearly his whole fortune to his legal wife while his girlfriend got nothing.
X0E16 TIL The cornea is one of only two parts of the human body without blood vessels
p8p4 TIL that Nazis forged british pounds with a total value of 134,610,810. Their plan was to destabilise the British economy. The notes are considered among the most perfect counterfeits ever produced, being almost impossible to distinguish from the real currency.