› added 1 month ago

8

TIL US Navy’s tried to use pigeon to pilot bomb using grain of food sticked to boat images

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

mxLQR TIL that a woman discovered from watching TV that her current house was once owned by a serial killer who used to torture women in the basement
50Qk TIL Scientology ran a forced child labor camp in Austrailia
9wlaG TIL Windows 95 was the second most installed piece of software on computers in 1995. First place went to DOOM.
BrZ4b TIL that 3 US States (Texas, New York & California) individually each have a larger economy than Russia.
9YgWX TIL How William Shakespeare’s name is spelled is unknown, even to himself. His contemporaries spelled it more than 80 different ways, including “Shappere” and “Shaxberd”. It turns out, he never used “William Shakespeare” once