› added 7 years ago

120

TIL that a Role Playing Game company (Steve Jackson Games) was raided by the Secret Service partly because they were developing a game about hacking. This was the main influence in the foundation of the EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation), a non-profit digital rights group.

Read more wikipedia.org

via ift.tt

9wYjm TIL Philippe Pétain was a French hero in WWI, who collaborated with the nazis in WWII as leader of Vichy France.
4XZg TIL that Canadian triathlete Simon Whitfield consoled a little girl who had been crying for him after he crashed, before tending to his injuries.
GY7nJ TIL: (1906) Long after slavery was abolished there was a caged african man and monkey on display in the Bronx Zoo. Ota Benga later on committed suicide.
5YEOQ TIL That in the aftermath of Chicago's St. Valentine's Day Massacre, newspaper publisher Walter A. Strong asked his friend Herbert Hoover to put an end to Chicago's lawlessness, launching a multi-pronged attack on Al Capone, resulting in convictions for tax evasion, his imprisonment and death.
N7QXe TIL The longest walk around the world was completed by a former neon-sign salesman, Jean Beliveau. He walked 46,600 miles around 64 countries. The trip took him 11 years.