› added 10 years ago

48

TIL The British outlawed the worship of Sopona, the god of smallpox, in Nigeria after a doctor infiltrated a powerful cult of the god’s priests and discovered they were deliberately spreading the disease in a plot to increase their power.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

GYA7G TIL the first koalas to live outside of Australia were named Snugglepot and Cuddlepie, and arrived at the San Diego Zoo in 1925
W4R4 TIL because they make over 300 million small rubber tires each year, LEGO is considered the world’s # 1 tire manufacturer
pWON TIL 70% of murders in Detroit go unsolved.
Y7vZr TIL in the US only, the strength of the placebo effect is so high that drug companies have trouble getting new painkillers approved through clinical trials.
X0pkj TIL Teddy Roosevelt's great grandson Simon died in motorcycle accident aged 19. 17 years later, Simon's brother Caleb died in a car accident at the same age of 19. Four years after that, their brother William died at 21 after getting hit by a pickup truck.