› added 1 day ago

1

TIL of the infamous candle caper of Halloween night, October 31, 1687, Hartford, Connecticut, in the upper room at Zachariah Sanford's tavern. Demand was made. The document was produced. Then, the candles went out.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

J1PJk TIL a large percentage of the drugs smuggled across the US border are smuggled by addicted people or others in financial hardship, who are paid little but need the money to sustain their lives. Some carry fentanyl pills inside their body that can easily kill them if accidentally absorbed.
ANMnn TIL that sadism and masochism as counterparts is a misnomer. For instance, Sade (origin of sadism) wrote in his books that a sadist doesn't enjoy "a willing servant." It was just Freud who created the whole sadomasochism concept... Damn you, Freud.
JYYKm TIL that the Battle of Jemappes happened today: French army beats Holy Roman Empire
x6Veg TIL author H.G. Wells married his cousin in 1891. The couple later separated when H.G. Wells fell in love with one of his students, Amy Catherine Robbins. This entire period was the most productive in H.G. Wells' whole writing career producing The War of the Worlds, The Time Machine, among others.
OG0EL TIL Duplex stainless steel can undergo 475°C embrittlement that causes a loss of plasticity when it is heated between 250°C and 550°C.