› added 7 years ago

129

TIL Pope Francis briefly worked as a nightclub bouncer before joining the Jesuits

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

xVXKD TIL that the oldest and most active community WiFi mesh net is in Brooklyn NYC, which let residents communicate during Hurricane Sandy when other cellphone and internet networks were wiped out
Rkj6 TIL: You would need to smoke approximately 15,000 joints in 20 minutes to die from cannabis poisoning.
jNO9X TIL. Spain fought the longest and most expensive war of their conquest of modern day Mexico against the Chchimecas. They ultimately gave up and negotiated peace, ensuring the preservation of their culture into modern times and becoming one of the few pre-Columbian culures to fully survive
BgMex TIL that the State of North Carolina owns a 317-mile rail corrider between Morehead City, NC and Charlotte, NC. It is operated by Norfolk Southern, and carries over 70 freight and 8 passenger trains per day.
nbQd TIL that the war scenes in the movie Saving Private Ryan was claimed by many WW2 veterans and historians to be the most accurate depiction of war in any war movie they’ve seen.