› added 8 months ago

203

TIL That up until the 1970s there existed a law in Ireland in which all bars had to close...on March 17.

Read more history.com

via reddit.com

e0OQg TIL of the Brocken Spectre, the shadow of an observer on a mountain, cast by low sunlight onto clouds below the observer, often with a circular rainbow halo. It is named after the Brocken peak in the Harz Mountains
jEMj TIL in the real story of Mulan, after she is given leave from the army, she is summoned back to the palace to be the khan’s concubine(a sex-slave). Rather than suffer this fate, she committed suicide.
JBEv TIL our Masseter Muscles are strong enough to bite through cinder blocks and hand cuffs, but our teeth would break.
wLZD7 TIL that the Popsicle was invented when 11 year old Frank Epperson accidentally left sugary soda water outdoor on a frigid night in 1905. His kids later made him rename the Epsicle (Epperson's icicle) to Pop's 'Sicle.
DWVv TIL in 1991 the tallest structure in the world at the time (a radio tower in Poland) collapsed due to poor maintenance. No structure exceeded the height of the collapsed Warsaw Radio Tower until the Bujr Khalifa was completed in Dubai nearly two decades later.