President Harry S. Truman’s administration purposely infected the people of Guatemala with syphilis after WW2. 00
The keys to the holiest site in Christianity are kept…
The keys to the holiest site in Christianity are kept by a Muslim family that opens the church every morning. Meant to keep the peace between the denominations this arrangement has been in place since 1187 ce. 00
Derreck Kayongo collected barely-used bars of soap from hotels…
Derreck Kayongo collected barely-used bars of soap from hotels, melted them together, and distributed them to poor countries. He’s the founder of the Global Soap Project, which improves access to basic sanitation and reduces disease and child mortality. 00
USPS Mail Delivery Vehicles are 25-30 years…
USPS Mail Delivery Vehicles are 25-30 years old and use engines designed in the 1970’s that get 10 MPG. 00
Andrew Jackson was the first sitting president to almost…
Andrew Jackson was the first sitting president to almost be assassinated. After the first pistol failed to be discharged a second pistol was pulled, that one too misfired. The likelihood of both pistols misfiring was 120,000 to 1. 00
A Texas man barricaded himself in his home after biting a police…
A Texas man barricaded himself in his home after biting a police officer during a traffic stop, and refused to come out for more than a decade. 00
Mark Twain had a near fatal heart attack in…
Mark Twain had a near fatal heart attack in 1898 after watching a belly dancer’s routine. 00
Some knife makers attach a coin to each knife they sell…
Some knife makers attach a coin to each knife they sell, to circumvent the superstition that giving someone a knife as a gift severs the relationship: the receiver can ‘pay’ for the knife by returning the coin to the person who gave the knife to them, turning the gift into a ‘purchase’. 00
A Mexican man told his daughter he worked at the WTC…
A Mexican man told his daughter he worked at the WTC. She never heard from him again after 9/11 — she’s certain he died in the attacks. Authorities wonder if he used the tragedy as a chance to start a new life in California and didn’t tell her. They removed his name from the 9/11 […]
H&R Block once discovered that their own…
H&R Block once discovered that their own taxes were too complex for them to manage. 10