› added 3 years ago

128

TIL that the first novel featuring time travel was written in 1733. It is set 1997 and tells of a future where the world becomes dominated by the Jesuits. Because it was written before the industrial revolution, there is no depicted technological advancement between the author's time and the future

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

yQPWa TIL that a woman tried to sue the Captain Crunch cereal company because she believed crunch berries were real fruit for 4 years before she found out they were just cereal.
aDm9 TIL that in 2017 the remaining JFK assassination files will be released
k0B1 TIL that after the fall of Singapore in WWII the Japanese executed men with tattoos, on the basis that they were probably criminals
LZPd TIL immediately after Pearl Harbor the US treasury issued specialized ‘over print’ bank notes for the Hawaiian market. In the case of an invasion all the seized cash would be rendered worthless.
Oo1l7 TIL From 1984 - 1988, Spider-Man wore a black costume with a white spider design on his chest. The change to his iconic design was met with controversy. Years later, it was revealed the costume was an alien symbiote which, in turn, gave birth to Venom, one of Marvel's most popular characters