› added 11 years ago

219

TIL that a man was sentenced to be strangled to death in front of the parents whose children he killed and then his body would be cut into 100 pieces and put in acid, the same way he killed the children

Read more news.bbc.co.uk

via reddit.com

yQxYe TIL The earliest recorded epidemic dates back to the Peloponnesian War, 430 BC. he ancient Greek historian Thucydides described the symptoms of a disease believed to be typhoid fever. Known as the Great Athenian Plague, it killed about 100,000 people, or two-thirds of the population there.
0w7DL TIL a 3 second clip from Bill Wither's "Use Me" was used by Kendrick, Kanye, J. Cole, Drake, Nas, and Logic.
4X0Xw TIL only 6% of high school players go on to play college football. Only 1.7% of college football players get drafted in the NFL. That means only 0.08% of high school football players will go pro.
4XmQa TIL after a storming a hijacked plane and killing/capturing the hijackers, Israel worked for 5 years to purchase the aircraft, then converted it to a spyplane
4XJy5 TIL Elsie the cow of Borden Dairy and Elmer the Bull of Elmer's Glue are married.