› added 4 years ago

130

TIL: Beethoven loved his coffee so much that he had his own recipe. It consisted of 60 beans. Not 59, not 61, but precisely 60. He would drop them into a cup separately and sometimes do a second recount. He also had a special apparatus for preparing it.

Read more greenfarmcoffee.shop

via reddit.com

xVA0b TIL: Police in the UK apologised for using sirens, whilst trying to determine if they went "woo-woo" or "nee-nah".
yQeNX TIL Mill workers in Manchester, England refused to touch slave-picked cotton during the US Civil War. Lincoln wrote a letter of thanks, and relief shipments were sent to the workers. Today, a statue of Lincoln stands in Manchester's Lincoln Square
kOZ0B TIL: Rogue waves can occur occur in the open ocean creating walls of water up to 40m high, as well as rogue troughs which can create a deep pit in the open ocean.
4Ywa TIL there are blue bandaids with metal in them so they can be detected by metal detectors in food processing factories.
WkVnL TIL the word mile originates from the measurement of one thousand paces of a Roman soldier (mille passus)