› added 12 years ago

195

TIL that 1 soda a day increases your chance of type 2 diabetes by 22%

Read more independent.co.uk

via reddit.com

4XRGJ TIL that interracial marriage was technically illegal in Alabama until 2000 (although unenforceable due to Loving v Virginia). In the 2000 referendum, only 59% of people voted in favour of removing these anti-miscegenation clauses from the state constitution
ag9A TIL- According to Michael Hastings girlfriend, the night before his car crash he tried to borrow her car, claiming he was terrified to drive his because he thought it had been tampered with.
Op4L TIL: The Pentagon orchestrated analysts presented to the media as independent to give favorable coverage to the US war on Iraq and conditions at Guantanamo Bay. Most the analysts even had financial ties to contractors in the war.
XEJMj TIL during WWII the British government distributed 600,000 Morrison shelters, which were designed as a DIY indoor bomb shelter kit for houses without cellars. When properly positioned they could protect a family from the collapse of a two story building and also doubled as dining table.
kJBEW TIL that Sam Faubus, the father of infamous Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus, privately disapproved of his sons actions during the Little Rock Crisis, going so far as to write letters in support of desegregation to the Arkansas Gazette.