› added 2 years ago

96

TIL if you sat down and watched all 249 individual animation series from the Hanna-Barbera studios, back to back without interruption or commercials, it would take 51.9 days or 1246 hours from start to finish.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

dD0LZ TIL of the founder of the Majapahit Empire, Raden Wijaya who used a Mongol army that had originally sailed to Indonesia to invade his father's kingdom to defeat rebels that had deposed and killed his father. He would then destroy the weakened Mongol force and become independent
woADY TIL about "Armsünderfett" (German: fat or grease from "poor sinners" put to death). Many executioners recovered the fat from the bodies of their executant, to be used in ointments for various diseases.
wLPA1 TIL the origin of the phrase “steal my thunder” is an 18th century playwright who created a machine that recreated thunder noises for a cancelled play. When he attended a later play in the same theatre and heard it used, he cried "Damn them! They will not let my play run, but they steal my thunder."
QJ6l6 TIL that a copy of the Tang-dynasty Chinese version of the Diamond Sūtra (11th May 868) is the earliest dated printed book. It is also the first known creative work with an explicit public-domain dedication, as its colophon at the end states that it was created "for universal free distribution."
J408 TIL that, during the conquest of Mexico and due to lack of gunpowder, three Spanish conquistadors climbed the Popocatépetl volcano (17,802 ft/5,426 m) and hung themselves using ropes into the crater to get sulfur for their cannons and succeded. Six times.