Home
Random
Trending
Today
58
posts added
Search
› added
3 months ago
13
TIL USA firms profited by selling contaminated blood to UK
Read more
wikipedia.org
via
reddit.com
m1YlR
TIL, A 50yr old inmate named James Washington confessed to murdering a Nashville woman 17 yrs ago while on his deathbed, presumably thinking he was about to die. He ended up surviving & was convicted for his confession, which he later tried to recant
7XxX
TIL that in 1888, a French newspaper mistakenly published Alfred Nobel’s obituary. It condemned Nobel for his invention of dynamite and labeled him the “merchant of death.” Disconcerted, Nobel set aside his fortune for the creation of the Nobel Prizes, so that he would leave behind a better legacy.
jN55X
TIL the Bay of Pigs in Cuba is called "Bahía de Cochinos" in Spanish, cochino being a common fish in the area. Cochino can also be used as an insult in Cuban Spanish very similarly to how "pig" is used as an insult in English, leading to the mistranslation.
D1DgV
TIL about the movie "100 years" written by actor John Malkovitch directed by Robert Rodriguez, a movie due to be released on November 18, 2115. It was created as to match the span it takes for a Louis XIII Cognac to age properly. Pharrell Williams has also released a matching song called "100 years"
KVG9
TIL that the New Horizons space probe to Pluto is actually powered by Plutonium.