› added 7 years ago

242

TIL that in 1966 Harper Lee donated $10 to a school board that tried to ban To Kill a Mockingbird with a note that said “I hope [the $10] will be used to enroll the Hanover County School Board in any first grade of its choice.”

Read more richmond.com

via ift.tt

oBe9W TIL: The world champion US Women's Soccer team lost 5-2 to a 13 and 14 year-old boy's team
4X4bo TIL that The Clash, even at the height of their fame, had an open-door policy where anyone who wanted to could come backstage
16n1d TIL that strong evidence points to a black hole at the center of our own, and most other galaxies.
BdGb TIL - Half of America’s teachers graduated in the bottom third of their college class
XERO6 TIL running a leafblower for 30 minutes is worse than driving a pickup truck 3800 miles