› added 1 year ago

94

TIL about that time a British Airways flight got grounded because of a smelly poop

Read more bbc.com

via reddit.com

wg08 TIL that Converse Chuck Taylors have fuzz on the soles so that they can be classified as slippers, which are subject to much lower U.S. import tariffs than sneakers.
bXOE TIL China allows its state-owned tobacco company to sponsor elementary schools. In exchange, the company gets to subject children to pro-tobacco messages intended to cultivate young smokers.
78nN7 TIL during the last year of his life Jim Morrison would drink 3 bottles of whiskey per day
69Gvw TIL that in the 1950s, a psychiatrist had three paranoid schizophrenic patients who each believed they were Jesus Christ. He put them in a room together to see if their beliefs would change after confronting each other
5xLP TIL A 13 year old boy was tried as an adult after stealing a phone, because of the size of his penis.