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TIL about Witold Pilecki, a polish agent who volunteered for Auschwitz to feed information to the West about the Holocaust, one of the first to report it. He was executed by the Soviet Union for his Western connections
http://bit.ly/1kn3pSn

Submitted April 27, 2019 at 05:55PM by tommycthulhu
via reddit http://bit.ly/2UIHWej
TIL Hugh Hefner tried to make sure his beneficiaries won’t blow through his money after his death. His will states that his children will be cut off “if the trustees reasonably believe that (the beneficiary) routinely or frequently uses or consumes any illegal substance"
https://ind.pn/2VrecHd

Submitted April 27, 2019 at 11:06PM by thepresident45
via reddit http://bit.ly/2L7Mf3d
TIL, In 2008, the country of Rwanda banned plastic bags and, in early 2019, banned all single use plastics.
http://bit.ly/2IO8h9k

Submitted April 28, 2019 at 01:18AM by snowdemon483
via reddit http://bit.ly/2J20Bzl
TIL The Russo Brothers were given the reins of the MCU after Marvel president Kevin Feige saw and loved the Community episode "A Fistful of Paintballs"
http://bit.ly/2UYfslD

Submitted April 28, 2019 at 12:51AM by thoriginal
via reddit http://bit.ly/2GEqBxT
TIL once a year in parts of England flying ants migrate. Seagulls catch and eat them and then become drunk off the ants' formic acid, causing them to crash into buildings and moving cars.
http://bit.ly/2XTqs0r

Submitted April 28, 2019 at 03:32AM by jstohler
via reddit http://bit.ly/2GMTcSW
TIL there was a comic book series chronicling an alternate Superman timeline where he lands in the Soviet Union instead of the United States.
http://bit.ly/1OjvSL7

Submitted April 28, 2019 at 04:33AM by hotdogmaggot
via reddit http://bit.ly/2IWnswl
TIL When Bill Gates' daughter started kindergarten, he dropped her off at school in the mornings to help out his wife, Melinda. Within a few weeks, seeing this, other dads at the school began to drop their children off in the mornings instead of their wives.
http://bit.ly/2UzYLYJ

Submitted April 28, 2019 at 06:53AM by kathythesecond
via reddit http://bit.ly/2V1qXbR
TIL there is a 1420 book that was found to have cat piss on one of its pages. The author of the manunoscript even wrote on the page "Cursed be the pesty cat that urinated over this book during the night in Deventer... and beware well not to leave open books at night where cats can come."
http://bit.ly/2ZJe0Ca

Submitted April 28, 2019 at 07:46AM by shaka_sulu
via reddit http://bit.ly/2PCbjhd
TIL Harvard Associate Professor Dr. Lester Grinspoon tried to prove pot was harmful to get his friend, Carl Sagan, to smoke less. He then wrote a book on the lies behind pot and prompted a study into using THC for chemo associated nausea and vomiting, after seeing results in his son with leukemia.
http://bit.ly/2vrJ23P

Submitted April 28, 2019 at 06:04AM by QuantumMechan1c
via reddit http://bit.ly/2PABDrY
TIL that Stephen Wiltshire, autistic savant who draws detailed landscapes from memory and was featured in a BBC documentary as a child, now has his own gallery in London. A 76m panoramic memory drawing of New York is on display at JFK Airport. He was appointed an MBE in 2006.
http://bit.ly/L4pLeP

Submitted April 28, 2019 at 10:46AM by ClandesTyne
via reddit http://bit.ly/2IRT8nt
TIL that Volvo opened up the patent for three-point seatbelt cause "it had more value as a free life saving tool than something to profit from"
http://bit.ly/2tDsKWA

Submitted April 28, 2019 at 03:43PM by resont
via reddit http://bit.ly/2GOYBsH
TIL: During the filming of The Rocky Horror Picture Show the crew held an easter egg hunt on set. Some of the eggs that weren't found can actually be seen in the film. This is suggested as the origin of the term.
http://bit.ly/2DEa8Jm

Submitted April 28, 2019 at 05:12PM by New-found-Girth
via reddit http://bit.ly/2UL9dfW
TIL that James Dyson, partly supported by his wife's salary as an art teacher, spent five years and made about 5,127 prototypes until the launch of the famous vacuum cleaner that would not lose suction as it picked up dirt.
http://bit.ly/2GSMsTT

Submitted April 28, 2019 at 04:24PM by sedrakk
via reddit http://bit.ly/2UJsHBQ
TIL that the Japanese Bullet Train is cleaned in just seven minutes and prepared for the next passengers so that including disembarking and boarding, the train stops for only 12 minutes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyMStUaGmgA

Submitted April 28, 2019 at 02:55PM by jacathinker
via reddit http://bit.ly/2UPLLhS
TIL: That magician Houdini took off a year during WWI to promote the war effort and taught soldiers how to get out of handcuffs giving away some of his magic secrets.
http://bit.ly/2XLfni2

Submitted April 28, 2019 at 09:16PM by emilNYC
via reddit http://bit.ly/2GPdlYv
TIL that basketball sensation Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike each year than all the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
http://bit.ly/2sUX6Qk

Submitted April 28, 2019 at 09:37PM by ProdByWillare
via reddit http://bit.ly/2vsjBis
TIL that in the late Middle Ages, books were so valuable that libraries would chain them to the bookcase. This was widely practised until the 18th century.
http://bit.ly/2UZpzGI

Submitted April 28, 2019 at 05:56PM by jacathinker
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