› added 8 months ago

22

TIL after feeling dissapointed by how DARLING in the FRANXX ended and wanting to explore some of the concepts, canadian writer Xiran Jay Zhao wrote Iron Widow, a reimagining of the story of Wu Zetian in a futuristic medieval China. The book won multiple awards and became a NY Times best seller.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

W7gJA TIL that the two major political parties/groupings in Victorian Britain used gentlemen's social clubs as their official headquarters, complete with printing presses and mail franking, whilst horse-drawn cabs ferried MPs from the club to Parliament for votes in 8 minutes flat.
XEQWQ TIL that Tukhachevskiy considered as the first military commander to use chemical weapons against its own people. It happened during "Tambov rebellion" when russian peasants resisted the forced confiscation of grain by Red Army.
KYDoJ TIL Colonists in pre-Revolutionary America celebrated Guy Fawkes Night by burning effigies of the Pope...it was called Pope Night
4Mx5 TIL during prohibition in the US, merchants sold “bricks” of grape concentrate with a packet of dried yeast. These would come with a “warning label” cautioning not to mix the brick, yeast, water and sugar in a pot and then seal it for seven days, or else “an illegal alcoholic beverage will result”.
E1bYw Today I learned that ‘The Rule is Not "A" Before Consonants and "An" Before Vowels’, the rule is actually based around the sound of the word. For example: He has a unique point of view on the subject and talked about it for an hour.