› added 2 years ago

64

Today I learned that LDS Prophet Brigham Young owned a whisky distillery

Read more beatlyzer.com

via beatlyzer.com

jmLv TIL in 2010 research was done to find the most effective promotion strategy for employers. For the control group they used random selection. Random won.
9KgM TIL the word “Necromancer” is used 15 times in the bible
oRmDL TIL there was a quite a few cases of heavily insured airplane passengers blowing themselves up in the 50s/60s.
MeK0A TIL Roman soldiers were given one pound of meat daily. For an army 120 sheep were killed a day just for the meat ration. Or 60 hogs. Huge flocks of livestock were herded and grazing alongside an army. Roman soldiers were a mule more than anything else. They carried very heavy gear, on bad roads.
kJrYd TIL mussels, which you eat, start out life as parasites