› added 6 months ago

85

TIL that the Confederacy bordered a Habsburg Mexican empire controlled by France

Read more nps.gov

via reddit.com

jNE4Q TIL Phil Collins (of Genesis) wrote the Captain Planet and The Planeteers theme song
p81aA TIL people are making Money Right under Our Noses on YouTube (Just found out about this)
Z5j4 TIL that Rick Gibson, a Canadian artist, displayed earrings made out of a pair of freeze-dried human fetuses at an exhibition in London. The sculpture was seized by police and the incident resulted in his expulsion from Goldsmith’s College in 1987.
9wKXm TIL about Koro, a syndrome in which individuals have an overpowering belief that their sex organs are retracting and will disappear, despite the lack of any true longstanding changes to the genitals. Koro is also known as shrinking penis
neoNG TIL Benedict Cumberbatch, who plays Sherlock Holmes on "Sherlock," is distantly related to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who created the character.