7817b TIL about the London Beer Flood of 1814 that killed 8 people by a wall of porter released from a brewery tank failure.
kJ5D7 TIL that the 2005 film "Hostel" negatively affected Slovakia's and the Czech Republic's reputation. Director Eli Roth was invited on an all-expenses-paid trip to clear up the false allegations made in the film, which portrayed the countries as crime-ridden, lawless, poor, and dangerous places.
EgGAW TIL that the monarch of the country of Cambodia doesn't inherit the throne, Instead, they are elected via a special council called the Royal Council of the Throne.
rNyge TIL: In 2013-16, data of around 3 Billion Yahoo! users was leaked, making it the largest data breach in history. Even if the most significant breach occurred in 2013, the company announced it in late 2016.
Bg0DL TIL In Japanese folklore there are ghosts that came and cut your hair in the middle of the night. They usually gave you a really bad haircut. They can sometimes do this as a warning that you're about to get married to a demon and they're protecting you.
Y7elG TIL in Japan they used to keep time so that there was always 6 hours of night and 6 hours of day, so an “hour” changed length in winter and summer
NXx9E TIL about The Changing Light at Sandover, an epic-length poem written over twenty years by a gay poet and his lover, based on dictation from spirits speaking through a ouija board
l70mN TIL about Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell, an astrophysicist who discovered pulsars in 1972, had her boss not only take credit for the discovery but also win a Nobel prize for it.
8e1ZK TIL that there are very few figurative statues in honour of enslaved people in the entire Caribbean - only 6!
P1nRn TIL Prince Alfred of the UK officially won the 1862 Greek head of state referendum by a landslide. That being said, the Great Powers had previously agreed that no member of a ruling family of the Great Powers would have the crown of Greece. Prince Alfred declined the throne.
epyok TIL about Marjorie Rice, a self-taught mathematician who, in the 1970s, discovered four new types of tessellating pentagons (figures able to pave a surface without leaving a void between them)
VBOeQ TIL that Boeing bought 17 Airbus A340 aircraft from Singapore Airlines in exchange for brand new Boeing aircraft in 1999