› added 9 years ago

209

TIL The Church of Satan won’t give membership to convicted felons.

Read more churchofsatan.com

via reddit.com

oBk0W TIL of the London Beer flood of 1814, where a 22 foot vat of Porter beer burst, flooding the streets and killing 8 people.
D17dD TIL that there was a form of medieval torture, where the victim's feet were covered in salt water and then a goat would start licking them. Sometimes the laughter and stress from the intense tickling resulted in a heart attack or a brain hemorrhage.
aw4Wy TIL that the pirate Benjamin Hornigold once raided a merchant ship just to steal the hats from the ship's crew because his crew had gotten too drunk the night before and had thrown their hats overboard.
RvLw TIL a baby born to Ugandan mother during a flight from Amsterdam to Boston became Canadian after being born in their airspace.
0aVA TIL that Switzerland is unique in having enough nuclear fallout shelters to accommodate its entire population, should they ever be needed.