› added 11 months ago

28

TIL Sing Sing Prison is located 30 miles up the Hudson River from New York city. This is where the expression "getting sent up the river" comes from.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

Y7mVx TIL about Quasi-stars, aka black hole stars, where the star is supported not by fusion, but the energy of a black hole consuming matter. They hypothetically existed in the early universe.
8RWK TIL there is a theatre in Boulder, CO that offers discounts on white russians if you dress up like The Dude when they show the movie.
WBXN TIL Johnny Cash nearly destroyed an entire species. When Johnny Cash’s truck overheated and went up in flames, he decided to step aside instead of call for help. As a result, a square mile of the forest was burned and 50% of the California Condors bird species were killed. He was fined $82,000
NEOE TIL that after about a millennia of teaching about “Limbo”, in 2007 the Roman Catholic Church concluded that it doesn’t actually exist.
8aegG TIL that in 1795, nearly one sixth of the entire U.S. federal budget was sent to Algeria as a ransom for 115 American sailors captured by pirates.