› added 1 year ago

34

TIL that in the 17th century, tulip bulbs became incredibly valuable and were even traded on futures markets in the Netherlands. At the peak of the craze, some individual tulip bulbs were worth more than a house.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

X5EP TIL a psychiatric hospital in Canada stripped inmates nude, shut them in an empty room and gave them large, sustained doses of LSD as part of a controversial new form of therapy.
NX5wQ TIL The Churchill family owns a palace larger than the Buckingham Palace. It is also the birth place of Winston Churchill
WkxxL TIL that the world's oldest cat died at the age of 38. She was born in 1967, and died in 2005
oBgWL TIL 99% of internet data travels along a handful of undersea cables
5ZED TIL someone got so fed up with being on the mailing list of a scientific journal, they wrote a study titled “Get Me Off Your Fucking Mailing List”. The paper was accepted.