› added 2 years ago

92

TIL Yorkshire has a little burbling creek that is actually a deadly waterway that has dragged down everyone who ever set foot in it

Read more atlasobscura.com

via reddit.com

4kyw5 TIL After the big banking crisis of Florence in 1340 which wrecked the economy, an obscure laborer named Ciuto Branditi single handedly tried to organise his fellow wool workers into a union. He held assemblies and collected tithes for strike funds. His arrest caused a strike in the wool industry
GvvQ TIL the 10 year old singer of “I Want A Hippopotamus For Christmas” got her wish and donated it to the local zoo
LQpYP TIL The Universe was so hot and dense after the big bang that it took 360,000 years for the first atoms to form. The proton and neutron formed atomic nuclei shortly after the big bang but the electrons were free of their orbit for hundreds of thousand of years.
XLZP TIL Apu Nahasapeemapetilon (of ‘The Simpsons’ fame) is named after the most famous character in Bengali cinema.
JYwml TIL the first man to go over the Niagara Falls in a barrel died after slipping on an orange peel.