› added 5 years ago

131

TIL American Trillion is smaller than European Trillion.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

yQ61l TIL the bronze bull (or brazen bull) was a torture/execution bull-shaped device. The condemned were locked inside, fire set under, heating metal until they're roasted to death. An acoustic apparatus converted screams into the sound of a bull.
6EE77 TIL about the Circassian Genocide, where about 1,500,000 Circassians were killed and hundreds of thousands were displaced by the Russian Empire in an attempt to make room for Russian colonization in Circassia.
VMVYp TIL The actor that played the Telletubby, Tinky Winky, died alone on a street in Liverpool from alcoholism at the age of 52.
jo0j TIL there are 12 people who have won Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony awards a.k.a. EGOT. There’s only one EGOTH (EGOT+Hugo)winner, Mel Brooks.
lbyr TIL Its been shown bronze medal winners are happier than silver medal winners. This is due to counterfactual thinking: the silver medalists are more likely to compare themselves with gold medalist, while the bronze medal winners are more likely to compare themselves with 4th place finishers.