› added 6 years ago

165

TIL in 1809 Theodore Hook made a bet that he could make any house in London the most talked-about address in a week. He sent out 1000s of letters in the name of Mrs Tottenham of 54 Berners Street, requesting deliveries, visitors, and assistance. A large part of London was brought to a standstill.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

VRX0 TIL that there are some females who have one extra type of cone (4 instead of 3) and can therefore see 100x the amount of colors regular people can. [tetrachromacy]
R5x58 TIL learned that the first basketball slam dunk was performed in 1936 at Madison Square Garden by Joe Fortenberry.
v1gPK TIL a professional photographer designed his home in the shape of a camera
VAy4 TIL In 1906 a German shoemaker, Wilhelm Voigt, impersonated a military officer and tricked a group of soldiers into helping him rob a small town. Kaiser Willhelm II thought it was so funny that he personally pardoned Voigt.
8ewyX TIL in 2014 sewol ferry tragedy, the crew was dranking beer while waiting rescue and the captain told students to stay in the ship and abandoning the ship,the tradegy kills over 300 students and the captain and his crew are now in jail.