› added 12 years ago

95

TIL as a teenager, murder mystery novelist Anne Perry assisted her best friend in murdering her mother

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

woxM7 TIL that on December 26th, 1862, Abraham Lincoln ordered the hanging of 38 Dakota men in Mankato, Minnesota
x60oD TIL there is a disease called Maple Syrup Urine Disease, an inhereted genetic disorder which causes your urine to smell like maple syrup within 48 hours of child birth, that when untreated leads to metabolic crisis (comas, seizures, spasms) eventually causing death.
YpGMG TIL: From AD 755-766, the An Lushan Rebellion consumed the Tang Dynasty in China. Modern estimates suggest ~13 million died (5% of the world's population at the time) from the conflict and subsequent societal collapse
78YJ7 TIL That anyone killed by lightening in Rome was denied proper burial, because it was assumed the gods had punished him
4X6V6 TIL scientists found a dinosaur “mummy” with intact skin and armor.