› added 10 hours ago

TIL about Iron Mike Malloy who survived his “friends” trying to murder him for insurance money using antifreeze, turpentine, horse liniment, rat poison, wood alcohol, poisoned oysters, spoiled sardines with carpet tacks, freezing him outdoors and a hit-and-run before finally killing him with gas.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

W7aXX TIL Hedgehogs can suffer from balloon syndrome, a rare condition where an infection to the skin causes it to inflate
ne7Lo TIL that American Civil War Union soldiers were issued 36 pounds of coffee a year and the word "coffee" appeared more in journal entries than "war," "bullet," "cannon," "slavery," "mother" or "Lincoln."
60aY TIL: Stephen Colbert Helped Fund $800,000 in Grants for South Carolina Teachers
GAmvQ TIL a Swedish sailor named Carl Emil Pettersson was shipwrecked in Papua New Guinea in 1904, was taken in by a local tribe, married the chief’s daughter, and eventually became king of the island.
6EoDX TIL That the guy who attempted to assassinate Ronald Reagan has been freed from psychiatric care since mid-2016 (John Hinckley Jr.)