› added 9 years ago

131

TIL parents believed their 5 year-old daughter was possessed by evil spirits because of her increasing stomach, only to be told by a doctor that she was in fact, pregnant.

Read more todayifoundout.com

via reddit.com

vPvY4 TIL that William I's response to northern rebellion in England was to order the wholesale slaughter of the inhabitants of northern shires, and the burning of food, homes, crops, tools, and livestock so that survivors would freeze or starve
7wZr TIL that while the US has the most civilian guns per capita by far, it’s only 28th in gun homicide rate, at just 3 per 100,000 people.
R7ENw TIL Alexander Alekhine from Russia has been the only World Chess Champion to die while holding the title, and the circumstances of his death have raised suspicions that he was murdered
Zp5vp TIL A tablespoon of our sun weighs about 5 pounds. A tablespoon of Neutron Star (a massive star 10x larger than our sun that has run out of fuel, collapsed, exploded, and collapsed some more) would weigh 1 billion tons- the weight of Mount Everest.
D1rEV TIL that Southern live oak was a secret weapon of the USS Constitution, one of America's first naval vessels, that was nicknamed "Old Ironsides" after so many cannonballs bounced off her hull because live oak wood is a super dense wood.