› added 11 years ago

78

TIL that in 1943 three Belgian men held up a train and liberated 200 Jews using only one gun and some wire cutters.

Read more jewishgblogspot.ca

via reddit.com

oRYlL TIL in 1947, Kurt Godel discovered a "loophole" in the US constitution that would permit American democracy to be turned into a dictatorship.
oRkKR TIL that Hyacinth Thrash wasn't the only survivor of the Jonestown Massacre. The other was 79 year old Grover Cleveland Davis who being hard of hearing slept through the death assembly. He died a year later.
bD5a TIL that chipotle peppers are just smoke-dried jalapeños.
Oob0Y TIL that Phytoplanktons are the lungs of our mother Earth producing about 2/3rd of the Earth's atmospheric oxygen.
vPKpj TIL that the shortest war in history was between Britain and Zanzibar, lasting only 38 minutes on August 27, 1896, after the British attacked and destroyed the Zanzibar royal palace.