› added 4 years ago

283

TIL that an 81 year old man called Giles Corey, accused of being a wizard in 1692, was the only man in American history to be subjected to death by pressing in an attempt to get him to submit to trial by jury. It is said that his response to the torture was to tell them to add 'more weight.'

Read more historyofmassachusetts.org

via reddit.com

84LL TIL the library posters in “The Breakfast Club” can also be seen in the school halls of “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.” Both John Hughes films were shot back-to-back to save time and money.
Xnr6 TIL That Neil Armstrong was carrying pieces from the Wright Brothers first plane while on the surface of the moon
X0gV8 TIL that the Alfa Romeo Logo isn’t a snake with a red tongue, but a snake eating a human.
vPRl8 TIL that dogs' noses are so sensitive that they can smell whale poop in the ocean from up to 1 mile (1.6 km) away
4Xa5g TIL of "starlight tours", a practice of the Saskatoon police that involved arresting Canadian indigenous people and dropping them off oustide city limits to freeze to death. It went from the 1970's to the early 2000's.