TIL The first book on forensic science was written in the 13th century. It included a story of how a murder was solved by telling all suspects to bring their sickles to the town square, and watching a
TIL that Thomas Paine's bones were dug up in 1819 and taken to England by radical journalist William Cobbett, who intended to give Paine a heroic reburial in his native country. It never happened. Cob
TIL that Aleister Crowley, who helped pioneer attempts on K2 and Kanchenjunga, was also an English occultist who called himself “The Beast 666,” founded his own religion, studied yoga in India, allege
TIL that the original Godzilla suit was so hot and heavy that technicians would regularly pour out cups of sweat between takes, and suit actor Haruo Nakajima lost 20 pounds of weight over the course o
TIL that in Sweden, a man heard roaring coming from his neighbor's garden and discovered a moose stuck in an apple tree, apparently drunk after gorging on fermented apples. Firefighters had to saw off
This image shows General Electric's 70-MeV electron synchrotron, a massive particle accelerator used for cancer radiation therapy at the University of California Medical Center (UCSF) in San Francisco
TIL King Philip II of Spain (1527–1598) ruled Spain, Portugal, Naples and Sicily, controlled the Netherlands and was King of England and Ireland through his marriage to Mary I. His empire also include
TIL 40,000 people showed up to a place in the middle of nowhere in Texas in 1896 to watch two trains intentionally run into each other. “The Crash at Crush,” brought in more people than inhabited Texa
![[oc] A wild roe deer walked right up to me in the mountains and asked for pets](/_next/image?url=%2Fuploads%2Fimages%2F1788970563356-dd3cfa502d802888.webp&w=3840&q=75)
