› added 1 year ago

64

TIL about the “Crypt of Civilization”, a 2000-Cubic-Foot time capsule, sealed in 1940. It is set to be opened 6,173 years from its sealing, in the year 8113.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

pLAQ TIL: In New Orleans, for a few hundred dollars, you and your friends can rent a brass brand and have your very own police escorted personal parade.
rNlB0 TIL about Hornussen, a Swiss golf-baseball game in which the player hits a high speed rubber projectile at a group of placard-carrying opponents.
wLQnW Today I learned that the term white elephant came from the king of Thailand giving giant white elephants as gifts to people he did not like in hopes of bankrupting the receiver of the gift with the expenses of caring for an elephant.
b9jYN TIL about Shogi, a variant of Chess, which itself has another variant Dai Shogi, where you had to capture the opponent's king and, if present, the prince, which counts as a second king.
lWgB TIL that a fourteen year-old boy, bleeding from the anus and heavily drugged, managed to escape Jeffery Dahmer only to be returned to him after Dahmer convinced police the boy was his lover.