› added 1 year ago

49

TIL that Mozart was not actually buried in a mass grave. The term 'common grave' in Vienna meant a grave for a non-aristocrat, which the city was permitted to dig back up after a decade and reuse.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

6EJrW TIL that the UK is the world's largest producer/exporter of cannabis, cultivating and profiting from the industry even though it remains an illegal substance in the UK.
R7ja7 TIL of 'poor doors', which are separate entrances for low income tenants, so that wealthier tenants don't need to encounter or see them.
kOLPg TIL during WWII the Royal Marines used a body with fake orders to trick the Axis Powers into believing the Allies were invading Greece
epwxg TIL that there’s a dragon in some versions of the Bible
GAWwE TIL a linguistic study discovered that winter workers in Antarctica started to develop a new accent. They noticed a change after measuring the participants' vocal characteristics before and after their visit. This is the result of them being isolated as a group and interacting with only one another.