› added 9 years ago

367

TIL Carlos Santana revealed to Rolling Stone that he was contacted by the Archangel Metatron and told how to create his next album ‘Supernatural.’ It went on to win 12 Grammy’s including Album of the Year, went 15 times platinum, charted #1 in ten countries, and sold 30 million copies.

Read more ledgernote.com

via reddit.com

vKp8 TIL British doctor Harold Shipman (AKA ‘Doctor Death’) was proven to have murdered at least 250 of his patients, but may have killed as many as 459 people, making him the most prolific serial killer in recorded human history.
8aJR4 TIL that the Torajan people of Indonesia live with their dead for extended periods of time
R7mrl TIL that to deal with periods, “Until the turn of the 20th century, women simply bled into their clothes or, where they could afford it, shaped scraps of cloth or other absorbents like bark or hay into a pad or tampon-like object”
k0Yg TIL that Doritos could be made without powder and taste exactly the same. It was left on because it was decided that the residue left on your fingers was part of the “Doritos experience”.
ZVMD TIL that between Egypt and Sudan, there is a strip of land that neither country will acknowledge as part of their territory. It is is one of the few unclaimed regions on earth.