› added 1 year ago

51

TIL in 1098 (First Crusade), crusaders promised the Muslim population of Ma’arra safe conduct if they surrendered. The Muslims surrendered, then the crusaders immediately began to massacre almost the entire population of 20,000. The crusaders then resorted to cannibalism, eating the Muslims.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

MkD7 TIL that the movie Clerks was the first movie in history where the cost to license the soundtrack ended up being more than the production cost for the entire movie
oRJZ7 TIL There are 12 Common Wild Horse Breeds Around the World
RWx4 TIL Joe Pesci was a guitarist before he was an actor, playing with Joey Dee and the Starliters. That position was later filled by Jimi Hendrix.
pepQ TIL that in 1981 Ozzy Osbourne went to a meeting with the head of CBS Europe in Germany so intoxicated that he performed a Nazi goose-step up and down the table before dipping his testicles in and then urinating in the executive’s glass of wine.
5VgP TIL there´s a hugely popular reality show in China that interviews death row prisoners moments before their execution