› added 1 month ago

10

TIL about the spintria, or spintriae in plural, a Roman-era token with a numeral on one side and on the other side, the image of a couple having sex. Each numbered coin had a different sex position. Historians don’t know what spintriae were for but have suggested they were used as brothel passes.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

woLmM TIL about the tragic launching of the HMS Albion in 1898, the first disaster caught on film. 38 people drowned by a bow wave caused by the launch.
JY5Bk TIL shower beers are good for you
kJWJ1 TIL in 1900, an unknown boy was hired as coswain by the Dutch team for the Olympic rowing event. The team received a gold medal
grAjX TIL "How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming" is a memoir by Mike Brown, the American astronomer most responsible for the reclassification of Pluto from planet to dwarf planet. It is an account of the events surrounding the redefinition of 'planet' that eventually changed the status of Pluto.
xpxb TIL of a banker in a small Florida town who encouraged people to buy shares of Coke during the Depression and now the town has “secret Coke millionaires”