› added 11 years ago

85

TIL that the death toll of the Rwandan Genocide accounted as much as 20% of the country’s total population

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

XPnP TIL the film Who Framed Roger Rabbit? was based on a mystery novel Who Censored Roger Rabbit? In the novel, the mystery is Roger’s death.
d8ajK TIL that in Germany, a doctor diagnosed a case of cobalt poisoning because the symptoms matched a case shown in an episode of Dr. House, and that he wrote a book on how to apply Dr. House's diagnosis in real life.
eplBE TIL about Abu bakr al-razi. A Persian physician, philosopher and alchemist who was among the first to use humoral theory to distinguish one contagious disease from another, and wrote a pioneering book about smallpox and measles providing clinical characterization of the diseases.
yQQnX TIL- we are all running Minix and we don't even know it
pAMN TIL of HTTP 451 - a computer network code similar to 404 page not found - which tells a user if the content is legally blocked. It was named after the book Fahrenheit 451, where books are banned.