› added 8 years ago

266

TIL Martin Shkreli tried to auction off the chance to punch him in the face.

Read more cnbc.com

via ift.tt

DQXXD TIL As a British colony in the 1870s, Prince Edward Island was first promoted as a place to get away from the high-pressured society of North America. Many Americans saw Canada as a foreign land that resembled the old country of England but without the bustle
1YM7 TIL About a man, Bradley Birkenfeld, who was jailed for 40 months then, upon release from prison, received the largest whistleblower award in History of $104,000,000 USD
9kk7 TIL you could swim in a spent nuclear fuel pool without being harmed
X0PZR TIL in 2015, a man tried to claim he invented the chicken sandwich but U.S Courts ruled that the sandwich couldn't be copyrighted.
R57Kl TIL that money from The Beatle's record sales in the 60s helped fund the invention of the CAT scan.