› added 7 months ago

28

TIL lightning balls that phase through walls and explode can show up rarely and without reason

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

gM5Pb TIL about the 1898 Siege of Baler. During the Philippine revolution a 50 soldiers detachment of the Spanish 2nd Expeditionary Battalion Cazadores managed to survive 337 days in a fortified church, while killing 700 Filipino Revolutionaries and suffering only 17 casualties mostly due to disease.
nWBQG TIL that there are crystals that suddenly cannot be recreated, having been replaced globally by more stable forms via global contamination of microscopic seed crystals
G8R5 TIL Until 2014, police in Hawaii were allowed to legally have sex with prostitutes as part of their investigations.
Y745G TIL that Frederick Douglass, who was born into slavery and never knew his real birthday, chose to celebrate it on February 14th. He picked this date because he remembered his mother, whom he rarely saw, calling him her "Little Valentine."
yQGPM TIL Christopher Robin began hating his bear and was upset by neglect from his father. AA Milne was preoccupied by a "dream son". "He had got where he was by climbing on my infant shoulders, that he had filched from me my good name and had left me with nothing but the empty fame of being his son".