› added 8 years ago

660

TIL Multiple studies have demonstrated that writing about personally distressing events can speed up healing of minor wounds

Read more scientificamerican.com

via ift.tt

4XRRX TIL that Nicholas Cage has a Goth Son who sang in a Black Metal band and invented a genre called "Ghost Metal" in which he incorporates ancient instruments, like the Bouzouki, to invoke a "ghostly feeling".
oBAX8 TIL that despite the popularity of the legend of King Arthur, no English monarch from 1066 onwards ever took the name after coronation
m1vdo TIL that the last person executed by the Spanish Inquisition was Cayetano Ripoll, who was hanged in 1826 for teaching deist principles
ZpgVQ TIL while filming The Prisoner of Azkaban, Alan Rickman and Alfonso Cuarón played a practical joke on Daniel Radcliffe. They placed a fart machine in his sleeping bag, positioned him next to a girl he was interested in, and set the farts off during a take that had taken a long time to get.
oRdZo TIL about Tarrare, an 18th-century Frenchman who could eat 15 people's worth of food, live animals, and even swallowed documents for military espionage.