› added 5 years ago

87

TIL In Italy they can ask you a certification of "being alive". People can self-certificate of being alive. Death can't be self-certificated, though.

Read more comuni.it

via reddit.com

4XmPo TIL sugar doesn't cause hyperactivity in children.
6kQY TIL Mozart pirated a piece of music by writing it down from memory.
9Y91G TIL in 1824, a French physicist unknowingly initiated the science of "thermodynamics" outlining the second law and developing the notion of a "reversible process" in nature, when he wrote a book about how to maximize the efficiency of steam engines, at the age of 27
VBELG TIL that the English lost the battle of Maldon because they allowed the Vikings (who were encircled on an island) to cross a land bridge in order to have a fair battle.
VMEoQ TIL Nintendo bought the rights to two Mario porn parodies in order to halt their distribution.