› added 4 months ago

21

TIL the very eyebrow raising origins of the Oneida Cutlery company and one of their ousted members went on to assassinate President Garfield

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

6KDl TIL 18 million people in the US are consistently hungry, and another 30 million people have occasional problems getting enough food to eat
oyWK TIL of the “Madagascar Plan”, a proposal of the Third Reich to relocate the Jewish population of Europe to the island of Madagascar
b9vZp TIL that Lisa Kudrow initially played Ursula Buffay in Mad About You and then was cast as Phoebe Buffay in Friends based on that performance, with the producers using it as an opportunity to set the two shows in the same universe.
WkB8o TIL President Ulysses S. Grant's wife had control of four slaves during the American Civil War given by her father. After the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863, she chose to free them even though the proclamation did not apply to her state of Missouri.
8eByP TIL that the world smallest piloted biplane to fly is the Starr Bumble Bee II with a wingspan of 5 ft 6 in, total length of 8 ft 10 inches and takeoff weight of 260 kg. The record was set by Robert Starr in 1988 when he climbed to 400ft before the engine failed causing a crash.