› added 13 years ago

117

TIL the Soviet Tsar Bomba was so powerful it shattered windows 900 km away

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

mxmex TIL Japan doesn't make execution dates public. "inmates in Japan are notified on the morning of their execution, usually about an hour before."
yjLp TIL the only Englishman ever to be Pope asked the King of England to invade Ireland.
Vd8 TIL a 2,300 year old man was found preserved so well they could tell he used gel for his Mohawk
458a TIL The earliest known image of Jesus is a drawing mocking a follower. The “blaspheme graffiti”
99EM TIL Alan Rickman had to fall 25ft into an airbag for his death scene in Die Hard. The plan was for the stuntman to drop Rickman on the count of 3. However, the director secretly had the stuntman drop Rickman after a count of 1. Because of this, Rickman’s reaction in the film is completely genuine.