TIL that in his opposition to the Mexican War Abraham Lincoln said “Military glory,—that attractive rainbow that rises in showers of blood.”
TIL Israel Keyes, serial killer, would travel via plane from Alaska to the the continental U.S. to bury murder kits. He would return years later to retrieve them and kill at random. He had no victim profile
TIL: That 70% of Iran’s science and engineering students are women and that its scientific progress is reported to be the fastest in the world.