› added 12 years ago

196

TIL That www.Whitehouse.com was a porn website until 2004.

Read more whitehouse.com

via Whitehouse.com

dePB TIL that Vermont (42% gun ownership rate) had the lowest rate of gun murders in 2010: only 2
X00nX TIL: In 1793, Diego Marín Aguilera flapped the wings of his man-powered glider, reached a height of about 5m and flew over 300m before crashing because of a broken metal joint. The inhabitants of the town believed him a lunatic, heretic, or a fraud, and burned his "demonic" flapping-wing creation.
DQdrV TIL Nero the fifth emperor of Rome, kicked his pregnant wife, Poppaea Sabina, to death. He then found a lookalike of her, a young boy, castrated him and tried to make him his wife.
LQdMp TIL All North Koreans are considered citizens of South Korea by South Korea's government
e0Xn TIL in 1978 Charlie Chaplin’s dead body was stolen from the cemetery where he was buried. The body was recovered after 3 months and then re-buried in a vault surrounded by cement.