› added 1 year ago

76

TIL that in 1951 Koreans were banned from the Boston marathon

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

lo5kA TIL that in 1941, before the US entered WW2, many Americans mailed tea to Buckingham Palace as a show of support to England. The Queen sent them all thank you notes.
LGVp TIL 45 percent of couples in Hong Kong say they have given up on the idea of having children because of crowding and high housing costs. In another survey 38% of men and 31% of women simply said they didn’t like kids
7bxL TIL the Saudi Royal Family throws lavish sex parties involving alcohol and drugs, despite enforcing strict Sharia Law within their country.
Er6X TIL-King Otto of Bavaria – who ‘ruled’ from 1886 to 1913, and was quite mad – exercised his right to shoot one peasant every day. Luckily for Bavaria’s peasants, his attendants gave him pistols loaded with blanks and dressed up as peasants, playing dead whenever he ‘shot’ them.
v1j04 [TIL]After a New York lawyer insulted restaurant staff for speaking Spanish in public, people wrote over +2000 1 Star reviews for his office.