› added 12 years ago

90

TIL of the 1561 celestial phenomenon over Nuremberg; a reported incidence of a great space battle over Germany in the middle ages. There was even a crash landing outside the town!

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

neArW TIL the 2010 Japanese earthquake/tsunami caused a single death in the United States, killing a man attempting to photograph tsunami waves that reached the California coast. His body was eventually found 330 miles to the north on a beach in Oregon.
EgQ9w TIL that Europe has an official anthem
eb75 TIL the EU commission has an alphabetised list of myths about the EU, from the British press, followed by full explanations of what really happened.
JYVK4 TIL of the Parsley massacre when Domincan forces killed as many as 35,000 Haitians. Few bullets were used – instead, Haitians were bludgeoned and bayonetted, then herded into the sea, where sharks finished what the soliders had began.
Xl5j TIL Scientist John All fell into a 70-foot deep crevasse in Nepal. He broke 15 bones and was bleeding internally but miraculously survived and was able to document his climb out.