› added 1 year ago

73

TIL in 2009, popular brazilian crime show host ‘wallace souza’ was charged with hiring hitmen for murders in order to be the first on the scene to boost ratings. he was linked to 5 cases and died before trial.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

R7Br8 TIL Chad Kroeger once paid a drum technician to stick his dick into an electric fan
v10RK TIL Ball lightning is weird, actually real and deadly. The strange phenomenon of ball lightning appears during thunderstorms and has been known to break through windows, with nasty results.
e0mYE TIL Subway’s chicken is approximately 50% chicken
lonoA TIL Princess Olga of Kiev (a saint in the Catholic Church) was courted by the same tribe that killed her husband & proceeded to bury the tribe's suiters alive, burned the tribe's best warriors alive, slaughtered around 5,000 tribesmen during a celebration and burned their capital to the ground.
kJ104 TIL: a 22 year old missing persons case was solved in 2017 when someone spotted the missing man's car in a pond just a few yards from a neighbouring house in Google maps