› added 2 years ago

123

TIL Japanese Yakuza used to implant glass “pearls” in their penis for every year they served in prison.

Read more auajournals.org

via reddit.com

Oojda TIL of "bone music": sold on the Soviet black market, etched onto discarded X-Rays
b997a TIL that a family lived in the Siberian wilderness for over 40 years without human contact.
plZ8 TIL of the Voynich manuscript, a 246 page book that is filled with botanical illustrations along with written word that modern linguists have so far been incapable of deciphering. Attempts to identify the plants have likewise largely failed. Carbon dating places the book at around 1400 AD.
yQYw TIL that a group of german soldiers planned a coup against the Nazi regime in 1938 but were told by the French and the British ‘forget it’ because they approved of the present situation in Germany and hoped to make an alliance with it against Communism
0d6bA TIL celebrity chef Jamie Oliver named his children "Poppy Honey Rosie" "Daisy Boo Pamela" "Petal Blossom Rainbow" "Buddy Bear Maurice" and "River Rocket Blue Dallas"