› added 2 years ago

59

TIL that the last battle of the thirty years war was fought at Prague where the war started thirty years earlier during the bohemian revolt. Swedish forces took parts of the city including Prague castle and looted it for months before being repelled by bohemian forces.

Read more beatlyzer.com

via beatlyzer.com

0wDXN TIL: In 1983’s Trading Places, the Dukes are squeezed by a margin call that came about due to short selling based on insider information. While legal at the time, the “Eddie Murphy Rule” finally made this illegal in 2010.
4k0vw TIL about Bass Reeves, a black man who escaped slavery and became a Deputy U.S. Marshal, known for having over 3,000 arrests and 20 kills in the line of duty.
Jowk TIL that declawing a cat is illegal in many countries because its similar to amputating a finger tip.
jO9M TIL at the 1956 Olympics, an Australian student successfully impersonated an Olympic torchbearer, handing the mayor of Sydney a painted chair leg topped with a pair of burning underwear in front of a crowd of thousands.
l7YoN TIL That the majority of Purple Hearts issued to the US military over the last seventy five years were produced in 1945. In anticipation of high casualties for the unrealized invasion of Japan high production of the medal resulted in an end of war surplus of almost 500 000.