› added 9 years ago

57

TIL In Spartan society the only people granted marked headstones were warriors who died in battle and women who died in childbirth

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

r94o TIL United States Founding Father John Dickinson was nearly unanimously elected as President of Delaware; the only dissenting vote was from himself
p8ALO TIL: The International Space Station orbits about 220 miles above Earth. To put that in perspective, if Earth were the size of a basketball, the space station would be about 1/4 of an inch (<7mm) off the surface.
pNrQ TIL Willie Nelson lives in self-sustaining community on Maui with neighbors like Kris Kristofferson, Woody Harrelson, and Owen Wilson.
5YajP TIL at the height of his fame actor Stacy Keach was sentenced to 9 months in Reading prison for attempting to smuggle 1.3 ounces of cocaine into the UK
oBKoW TIL that Shirley Henderson, the actress that played Moaning Myrtle in the Harry Potter films, is currently 53 years old and was 37 in Chamber of Secrets