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The latest Messages 3
2021-08-26 00:01:09
TIL about the 71 teenage students, who were stationed to protect a South Korean HQ, despite having no experience in war or even firing a gun. The SK army didn’t think the NK army would attack that HQ, but they did. Those students, still in their school uniforms, held back the NK army for 11 hours. [Source]
263 views21:01
2021-08-25 16:30:08
TIL Lisa Leslie as a high school basketball player scored 101 points in 16 minutes of play. She shot 37 of 56 from the floor and 27 of 35 from the line. However, she did not break the record for women's points in a high school game because the other team's coach refused to play the second half. [Source]
275 views13:30
2021-07-02 00:01:05
TIL A Nigerian prince rented out an entire NYC restaurant for his first date with his now-wife, who had no idea he was a royal [Source]
105 views21:01
2021-07-01 16:30:07
TIL when the UN's Nordic Battalion was sent to Bosnia in 1993 it disobeyed orders, broke rules of engagement, faked loss of communication to HQ, and became known as one the most trigger-happy peacekeeper units. This enabled them to achieve their mission objective: to protect civilians at all cost. [Source]
106 views13:30
2021-07-01 00:01:07
TIL in 1947 a woman with hives went to Johns Hopkins to cure her hives. She received an experimental drug Compund 1694 and not only her hives cleared up she reported that her trolly rides were free from nausea. Doctors immediately test the drug for motion sickness and Compund 1694 became Dramamine. [Source]
205 views21:01
2021-06-30 16:30:07
TIL that home teams in basketball wear white uniforms because the home team had access to laundry facilities. By wearing grey or another dark color the visiting team was better able to conceal the stains that had accumulated on their uniforms over the course of the series. [Source]
94 views13:30
2021-06-30 00:01:07
TIL in 2018, an electrical engineer on board the Bellingshausen Research station in Antartica stabbed a fellow coworker in the chest multiple times because the colleague had been giving away the endings of books available in the research station’s library. [Source]
190 views21:01
2021-06-29 16:30:05
TIL as a prank, a man once climbed Mount Hood in the middle of the night and surreptitiously left a morning newspaper and a quart of milk for his friends, who were spending the night on the summit [Source]
209 views13:30
2021-06-29 00:01:06
TIL that Maui in Maori Mythology- who influenced Maui from Disney's Moana- turned into a worm so that he could climb into the vagina of the Goddess of Night in order to grant immortality to humanity. He was killed when she woke up and crushed him with her obsidian vaginal teeth. [Source]
241 views21:01
2021-06-28 16:30:05
TIL that when a plane was hijacked over Switzerland in 2014, the neighboring countries of Italy and France had to send their own fighter jets to the scene because the incident happened outside of the Swiss Air Force's business hours, and even hijackings weren't important enough to pay for overtime. [Source]
263 views13:30
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