What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?

[Anomalocaris]

In watching the reporting about Prime Minister’s Abe’s assassination, a cnn reporter in the region, said Japan had 1 gun-violence death last year. One. The US had +40k.

Having one gun violence death is apparently so egregiously unforgivable that the then prime minister had to atone with his life.

[Rev. Rye]

In watching the reporting about Prime Minister’s Abe’s assassination, a cnn reporter in the region, said Japan had 1 gun-violence death last year. One. The US had +40k.

Having one gun violence death is apparently so egregiously unforgivable that the then prime minister had to atone with his life.

Actually, apparently Former PM Abe (and yes, he was a former even before he got shot) was shot because the shooter’s mom bankrupted his family by donating to the Moonies, who he believed Abe was funding.

[Anomalocaris]

I was being facetious

[Fake Messiah]

70% of respondents in a 1954 Gallup poll agreed that comic books were at least partly to blame for teenage crime:

[Jehanne]

Ice at the South Pole is really melting this year, even though it is Winter there:

[Nay_Sayer]

I learned the sabertooth tiger didn't exist. It's a sabertooth cat and even that is a bit of a misnomer.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Theodore Roosevelt was the only US President to have a verified tattoo. His political opponents tried to use it against him, claiming he was so vain that he had his family's coat of arms tattooed on his chest (an internet myth that persists to this day).

TR did indeed have a tattoo on his chest, but it was a 'gunpowder tattoo', the result of accidentally shooting himself in the chest at the age of 13.

Boru

[Anomalocaris]

I learned the sabertooth tiger didn't exist. It's a sabertooth cat and even that is a bit of a misnomer.

Which sabertooth?

[Angrboda]

The paperwork to create the Secret Service was on Abraham Lincoln’s desk, unsigned, the night he went with his wife to Ford’s Theater to see Our American Cousin.

[Anomalocaris]

The paperwork to create the Secret Service was on Abraham Lincoln’s desk, unsigned, the night he went with his wife to Ford’s Theater to see Our American Cousin.

More promptness would not have helped him.  The secret service as first formed in 1865 was the anti-counterfeit arm of department of treasury.    It was not tasked with presidential protection until the 20th century.