› added 9 years ago

207

TIL Alexander the Great held a drinking contest among his soldiers. When it was over, 42 people had died from alcohol poisoning.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

Wj54 TIL Pound Cake gets its name because there is exactly 1 pound of each ingredient
epEXJ TIL the diffusion of responsibility is the phenomenon where individuals in a group are less likely to take action or feel responsible, assuming others will do so. This often leads to inaction in situations where help is needed.
1a0XP TIL that waste warriors, a group of volunteers in India has cleaned more than 200 tonnes of plastic waste from Himalayas
awR59 TIL that during the American Civil War, several divisions of the confederate army had a large snowball fight. It started when a couple of hundred men from Texas plotted a friendly fight with men from Arkansas, which spiralled into a brawl involving 9,000 soldiers of the Army of Northern Virginia.
04Y5 TIL: some 20% of women experience an acute pain called Mittelschmerz when they ovulate, being able to predict the exact moment of ovulation and from which ovary