› added 4 years ago

75

TIL that in Medieval Islam, Hospitals were forbidden by law to turn away patients who were unable to pay. Part of the state budget also went towards maintaining hospitals.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

neVZY TIL only three people were trained to pack the parachutes used in Apollo. NASA forbade them from riding in the same car.
LkZBd TIL that Betsy Ross didn’t actually make the first American flag in 1776. It was a story made up by her grandson, 100 years later.
dyGr TIL that in 1963, Alfred Heineken created a beer bottle that could also function as a brick to build houses in impoverished countries.
695kW TIL: The first state allowing women to vote was Wyoming
yVewV TIL Composer Richard Wagner lived in Villa Wesendonck, an elegant neoclassical mansion in Zurich. Wagner's house later became the Rietberg Museum, the only gallery in Switzerland to concentrate on non-European cultures