› added 5 years ago

54

TIL according to The Police drummer Stewart Copeland, Sting spent years trying to find rhymes for "every little thing she does is magic", only able to come up with "tragic" and "pelagic".

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

5VlED TIL girls from China's one-child policy era were found with needles in their brains, inserted into their soft skulls as infants by family members who wanted boys instead of girls
N7JbP TIL of Philip of France, who died by getting catapulted by his horse, scared because of a black pig in a market in Paris.
pY6lp TIL I learned that Duke Kahanamoku was not just a five-time Olympic medalist in swimming, as an Olympic Champion but was also a descendant of Hawaiian royalty
woYE TIL that Nuclear War during the Cuban Missile Crisis was averted by the action of a single Soviet officer.
gwr4 TIL that the Soviets dumped 17,000 containers of nuclear waste, 14 nuclear reactors, and more in the Kara Sea. Including one submarine that may re-achieve criticality and explode.