› added 10 years ago

333

TIL Undercover cops in England had children with the political activists they were spying on

Read more theguardian.com

via reddit.com

OVma TIL the Jamaica’s police force is among the deadliest in the world
nW7gr TIL about split brain theory, which explains that a person's brain hemispheres cannot share information with each other if the corpus callosum is severed.
bDx7 TIL Valerius Maximus wrote that Aeschylus, the Athenian author of tragedies, was killed by a tortoise dropped by an eagle. Pliny, in his Naturalis Historiæ, added that Aeschylus had been staying outdoors to avert a prophecy that he would be killed by a falling object.
yQv8e TIL that a man named Joseph Bolitho Johns (Moondyne Joe) escaped prison so many times that a special secure prison was built for him. A confident jailor said "if you get out again, I will set you free". Moondyne escaped that as well. He was caught again two years later but jailor kept his word.
XD8r TIL Saint Lawrence was martyred by being roasted to death on a gridiron. Supposedly, after roasting over a hot fire for a while he said, “I am done on this side; you may turn me over now”. The Church made him the patron saint of chefs and comedians.