› added 9 months ago

66

TIL there is a pile of waste clothes in Chile so large it can be seen from space

Read more skyfi.com

via reddit.com

aw0WA TIL PT Barnum bought a blind, elderly slave with a shrunken appearance and toured the country with her while claiming she was 161 years old and had breastfed George Washington when he was a baby. When she died, Barnam then sold her to a surgeon and had her autopsy performed live on Broadway.
AD1Go TIL that self-sustaining nuclear chain reactions can occurre and already have occured in nature.
KOoWa TIL one of the first people to use the term "American Exceptionalism" was Stalin in 1929 when he argued that USA was not at all exceptional, and that it will eventually fall to revolution like any other nation.
Lb9r TIL that members of the Russian Mafia would tattoo of Lenin, Marx, and Engels on their chest or vital organs because firing squads could not shoot images of USSR’s founding fathers.
R7yw9 TIL That Since 1950 Sedentary Jobs Have Increased By 83%