› added 4 years ago

98

TIL that in 1988 the UK banned a song for saying two groups of Irish people had been tortured into wrongful convictions. 3 years later it was found to be true and they were released.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

59RQ TIL: That gangster Bugsy Siegel wanted to kill both Joseph Goebbels and Hermann Göring in Rome before the WWII, but his companion, Countess Dorothy DiFrasso stopped him from doing so.
Y7RQP TIL the featured speaker at Gettysburg was Edward Everett, not Lincoln. He gave a 2 hour speech preceding the Gettysburg Address. After, he wrote to Lincoln "I should be glad if I could flatter myself that I came as near to the central idea of the occasion, in two hours, as you did in two minutes."
e0NjJ TIL: Supernova remnants can still be visible 40,000 years after stars explode
7DZM TIL that Bill & Melinda Gates have donated more money to charity than the world’s 21st richest person is worth, which totals to about 28 billion dollars.
ADAww TIL of Wilmer McLean, who’s house in Manassas, Virginia was in the 1st battle of Bull Run. He moved to Appomattox, Virginia, but 4 years later Robert E Lee surrendered to Ulysses S Grant in his living room. His properties had one of the first, and last encounters of the Civil War.