› added 1 month ago

6

TIL about Ättestupa, cliffs in Sweden where legend says elderly people in ancient Norse times would leap to their deaths in a ritual of senicide

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

71vb TIL when black death (bubonic plague) spread across Europe in the 1300’s, 60% of Florence, Italy’s population died within just a few months.
jNdLa TIL In 1989, two teenagers found a new born baby abandoned on a doorstep, swaddled in towels with her umbilical cord still attached. They handed her over to authorities. She was less than 12 hours old. 20 years later, the abandoned child- now grown up, tracked them down and thanked them.
0dR7N TIL — The chief factor affecting the speed of sound is the temperature.
nWJM9 TIL the black hole, TON 618, is so big (66 billion solar masses), a new term was invented to describe it: ultramassive black hole
9YLOm TIL a bezoar is a round, solid mass of indigestible material such as calcium and magnesium phosphate that accumulates in your digestive tract. A 2013 review presented 46 patients treated with Coca-Cola for bezoars. A total of 91.3% of patients had complete resolution after treatment with Coca-Cola.