› added 6 years ago

275

TIL a student tried to write his killer's name in his own blood after he was stabbed 86 times by a love rival he knew through an internet war games site

Read more telegraph.co.uk

via reddit.com

RX5a TIL Val Kilmer had to undergo therapy to get out of Jim Morrison character after filming “The Doors”
R7AXl TIL of Queen Constance of Italy, who in 1194 gave birth to her heir (the future Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II) at the age of 40. She supposedly gave birth publicly to refute rumors about her maternity
w1W7 TIL In late 1981, Ronald Reagan started a program of giving “government surplus” cheese to the poor and unemployed Rust Bowl families. The cheese had been stockpiled to keep dairy prices up.
QJooL TIL There's a German children's song about monkeys searching a coconut, which goes "The monkeys race through the woods, each one wanting to kill the other" and ending in "And the moral of the story: Do not steal coconuts".
MeyvK TIL Suffragettes were not entirely peaceful. After police beat female protestors on Black Friday, killing two, women started carrying guns and firebombing homes.