› added 4 years ago

58

TIL The Privy Council of Elizabeth I of England marked letters that needed to be delivered quickly with a rough drawing of a gallows on the address panel. Sometimes the drawing included a body hanging from the gallows.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

WlAo TIL of a restaurant called “The Heart Attack Grill,” with a hospital theme and scantily clad nurse waitresses serving the “Quadruple Bypass Burger” loaded with 9,982 calories. A customer died of a heart attack while eating a there, resulting in customers taking photos of him assuming it was a stunt.
PYvje TIL that clozapine (an antipsychotic drug) can cause constipation so severe that you vomit fecal material. A man is reported of dying from pneumonia that developed after aspirating such vomitus.
6901Y Today I learned that Nevada is the most centralized American state, with 73% of all Nevadans living in Clark County
loYrN TIL that George Orwell fought in the spanish civil war and was shot in the neck. There is now a square in Barcelona named after him called 'Plaça de George Orwell'. Ironically, the square was once one of the most heavily surveillanced places in Spain.
xVOw7 TIL that all 3 members of the original Apollo 1 mission were killed during a flight rehearsal test. The name Apollo 1, chosen by the crew, was made official by NASA in their honor after the fire. The tradition continued for every mission after.