› added 4 years ago

566

TIL Diogo Alves committed the famous “Aqueduct Murders” 1836-1840 and was the penultimate person to be hanged in Portugal. Scientists wanted to study the brain of a serial killer and so preserved his head in a glass vessel. It is still viewed today in the University of Lisbon’s Faculty of Medicine.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

mx1dE If it’s a particularly contagious virus, it would spread across the planet in a year. “If it starts in New York, it’s going to be in London certainly within a week,” says Ira Longini, a biostatistician at the University of Washington and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center in Seattle who uses computer models to analyze how viruses globe-trot. “And from there, it will quickly travel to the rest of North America and Europe.” For Longini’s computer forecasts to become reality, though, certain conditions would need to be met.
X9M6 TIL of a mysterious character on The Andy Griffith Show (1960-68) named “Mr. Schwamp” who would occasionally appear, often sitting on a park bench. The other characters would acknowledge him with “Hello Mr. Schwamp” but he would only nod silently. The actor who played him has yet to be identified.
KYKvR TIL Princess Zelda from The Legend of Zelda was named after Zelda Fitzgerald, the wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald
4dRX TIL that, though originally from the US, 7/11 has technically been a Japanese company since 1991. 7-Eleven Japan now runs all stores worldwide.
877G TIL Bic pen lids have holes in them so if ever inhaled the risk of suffocation is minimised