› added 10 years ago

282

TIL that King Tut’s penis was mummified while erect

Read more m.huffpost.com

via reddit.com

pYGMZ TIL that in 2010 Tennessee firefighters watched a family's home burn to the ground because they hadn't paid a 75$ firefighting subscription fee
jNLwp TIL of the Stolperstein; small brass plaques dotted around Berlin and other European cities to commemorate victims of Nazi persecution.
e0xwg TIL the son of a US Governor is 6,000 times more likely to become a Governor than the average American and the son of a US Senator is 8,500 times more likely to become a senator than the average American
AmRl TIL One researcher estimates that with current technology it would take 10,000 automated microscopes thirty years to map the connections between every neuron in a human brain, and 100 million terabytes of disk space to store the data.
VBlNB TIL Catholic services were preformed with the priest facing away from the audience until the 1960’s.