› added 1 year ago

45

TIL in Sept 2023 a grand jury indicted Duane Davis for the 1996 murder of Tupac Shakur. He allegedly planned and ordered the hit in retaliation for his late nephew, Orlando Anderson, being beaten in a casino earlier that night. He's reportedly the last surviving participant of Shakur's murder.

Read more bbc.com

via reddit.com

XEjQj TIL Will Ferrell played on 10 different MLB teams in one day
JYK11 TIL that medieval Iceland had a law against writing love poems to women, they were called "Mansöngr" or "maiden songs." If found guilty you were branded a full outlaw and banned from the island.
9yGp TIL that Jacqueline Kennedy requested an eternal flame for her husband’s grave and that group of Catholic schoolchildren were sprinkling the temporary flame with holy water. The cap came off the bottle and water poured onto the flame, putting it out.
d8lv9 TIL only 11% of cases of "Influenza-like illness" are actually caused by Influenza, and ~ 68% by unknown agents.
8eGob TIL “In Germany there is a derogatory term ‘sitzpinkler’ for a man who sits down to pee. It means he’s kind of a wuss --Physicists probe urination 'splashback' problem