› added 7 years ago

479

TIL a Russian man dug up and mummified the dead bodies of 26 little girls, before dressing them up and placing them around his house. He gave all of them names, threw them birthday parties, and considered them his "children".

Read more bbc.com

via reddit.com

GYx15 TIL In 1945 Roman Catholic nun Elise Rivet volunteered to go to the gas chamber in place of a mother at the Ravensbruck concentration camp. Less than two months before Germany surrendered she was killed at the age of 55.
loVM7 TIL Grant Imahara designed and built a robot for the Late Late show with Craig Fergusen:
yQ7ow TIL Sihanoukville is Cambodia's sole deep water port. The French colonial administration preferred to use Saigon for international trade and the Mekong River for further distribution. Thus Cambodia's access to high sea's trade was via the Mekong which required passage through Vietnamese territory
grnw7 TIL Security Guard Joseph Trombino barely survived an infamous 1981 NY robbery of a Brink's Armored Car. Nearly a decade later, he would then go on to also barely survive the 1993 World Trade Center bombings but tragically died on Sept 11 2001 in the WTC North Tower
oRxE7 TIL: 81-year-old folk singer Bob Dylan is still actively touring and simultaneously a very prolific visual artist. In 2022 he created a full size boxcar welded out of ornate wrought iron, his largest piece yet.