› added 12 years ago

80

TIL In the United States it is legal for an average citizen to wear body armor unless you were convicted of a violent felony.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

1aD6D TIL that Purple Dye in Ancient Times was made by extracting it from a type of Mediterranean sea snail, which made it hard to get lots of, making it by far the most valuable color dye at the time.
KOkgQ TIL about Kiviak, a traditional Inuit food from Greenland that consists of up to 500 small birds stuffed into a seal skin and left to ferment for several months. "The fermented intestinal fluids are sucked out from the whole birds, or used as a sauce for other foods."
9Y9d6 TIL that Fredric Baur, inventor of the Pringles can, had (at his request) his ashes interred in one. It was Original flavor.
nWB87 TIL that, from July 2017 to February 2024, at least 108 people have been killed since the Brightline company began its high-speed train service in Florida. However, after National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) investigations, none of the deaths were found to be the fault of Brightline.
5Vd0Q TIL the inventor of the electronic television also invented the first controlled nuclear fusion device