› added 4 months ago

25

TIL Ampersand (&) was once considered 27th letter in the alphabet

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

OGEva TIL that major American ballet companies generate roughly 40% of their annual ticket sale revenues from repeated performances of Tchaikovsky's "The Nutcracker" around Christmas.
GR5N TIL Ray Bradbury believed we all wound up creating the dystopian future of Fahrenheit 451 anyway. “Stop talking on the telephone, stop talking on the stupid Internet. It’s a waste of time.”
a4DL TIL that there is a fungus that grows off of gamma radiation growing in Chernobyl’s nuclear remains.
BrLBx TIL that in the 18th century getting a divorce in England was so expensive that lower class men sold their wives on markets instead. Most of the time the woman agreed to it and the buyer was usually the womans new lover. Sometimes a bidding war could start tough and a stranger could win.
gM6Wb TIL of Chad Varah—a priest who started the first suicide hotline in 1953 after the first funeral he conducted early in his career was for a 14-year-old girl who took her own life after having no one to talk to when her first period came and believed she’d contracted an STD.