› added 1 year ago

49

TIL that serial killer Joseph Paul Franklin’s spree from 1977-1980 which would claim the lives of 21 people, was financed in part by blood bank donations.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

9wV76 TIL that in 1942, the British War Office used holidaymakers' photos & postcards of northern european beach towns to help choose a location for the D-Day landings. To disguise this planning, the BBC asked people to send in photos from everywhere between Norway and the French-Spanish border.
r61o TIL Asphalt pavement is not only America’s most recycled and reused material, it now is being recycled and reused at a rate over 99 percent.
BdXb TIL after McDonald’s reduced the price of fries in Japan, teens would have “Potato Parties” where they would buy upwards of 60 orders of fries
nVjb TIL 1/3 of divorce filings in 2011 contained the word “Facebook”
LkM49 TIL that after Kanye's interruption of Taylor Swifts acceptance speech, Comedy Central played a South Park episode mocking Kanye's ego, four times in a row, back to back.