› added 2 years ago

48

TIL: 2nd POTUS Adams never owned a slave and declined on principle to use slave labor

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

xVoow TIL the US government can save $400 million a year by using a thinner font
e0pDb TIL of Pete Goss, A single handed sailor who sailed two days in hurricane force winds and 30ft waves to rescue another competitor. Nursed him back to health while sailing two weeks to land, then went back to finish the Vendee Globe race.
bL64 TIL that President Johnson, out of respect for his assassinated predecessor, John F. Kennedy, used the Oval Office only as a formal setting with visitors and continued to do most of his work in his vice presidential suite located in the Old Executive Office Building
VMVVZ TIL that Khutulun, a Mongolian Noblewoman made a pact with her father that she would marry the man who beat her at Wrestling and that any man who lost was to give her 100 horses. She is reported to have gained over 10,000 horses from defeating her suitors.
ngl9 TIL Vlad the Impaler once asked a noble man if the smell of the impaled corpses bothered him. The man said yes, so Vlad had him impaled on a higher stake to the ‘smell wouldn’t bother him’.