› added 12 years ago

88

TIL Isaac Newton invented calculus when Cambridge University was closed due to the bubonic plague.

Read more nmspacemuseum.org

via reddit.com

b6PgZ TIL during the Renaissance, women used to use the juice of the berries of atropa belladona (deadly nightshade) in eyedrops to dilate the pupils and make the eyes appear more seductive.
OvXR TIL 25 years ago one of Jeffrey Dahmer’s victims, a 14 year old Laotian boy, escaped only to be returned to him by the police. He was strangled to death shortly afterwards.
p8dL4 TIL the US Army suppressed a movie on the psychological affects of war on veterans called Let There Be Light. It was made just after WW2 and wasn't released until the 1980s, over 30 years later.
N7V4N TIL Iggy Pop once went round the VIP booths at the club before his own show, asking audience members for money to score some heroin before he would go on. He shot up next to the stage, then walked on and passed out (OD'd).
LDQ0 TIL that roughly 46% of Americans believe God created humans in present form, sans evolution and this number has been mostly constant over the last 30 years.