› added 7 years ago

330

TIL in 1830 to keep horse-drawn wagons and loiterers out of his alley, John Hollensbury removed the alley by building a tiny 7 foot wide 325 square foot townhouse. The house, located in Old Town Alexandria VA, is commonly referred to as The Spite House.

Read more hookedonhouses.net

via ift.tt

ZkOv TIL Native American warrior Crazy Horse grew to hate white people after witnessing his tribe being attacked by US troops. They had come because his tribe had slaughtered a cow that accidentally wandered into their village
69PK8 TIL Soil solarization is a small scale means of pest control. Covering the ground with a transparent sheet of polyethylene can heat soil to 35-60 C (95-140 F), which kills pathogens upto 30 cm deep in the soil and can promote healthy microbe growth.
0Ojp TIL The CIA have released all their documents on UFOs
mGpy TIL the average price of a NES game in 1990 was $50. Equivalent to about $90 in 2015.
0wPMv TIL about Aristarchus of Samos, who was the first person ever to hypothesize that the Earth revolves around the Sun almost 2,000 years before Copernicus, as well as the idea that distant bodies like stars were exactly like our own Sun and contained planets.