› added 5 years ago

355

TIL Maine has 4,600+ coastal islands, not to mention some inland too. Maine’s total coastline, including islands, is over 5,000 miles long - long enough to stretch from Maine to Alaska

Read more britannica.com

via reddit.com

b9o69 TIL that there are 5 temples in Kyoto, Japan that have blood stained ceilings. The ceilings are made from the floorboards of a castle where warriors killed themselves after a long hold-off against an army.
4D5a TIL that in classical Athens, the punishment for sleeping with another man’s wife was to be publicly sodomized with a spicy radish.
OoEeX TIL that the worlds longest wedding veil was/is 63 football fields long.
16Vv7 TIL: I need to replace the cabin air filter in my vehicle. Thank you LPT
rR050 TIL that in 1918 Chicago during the Great Flu Pandemic Julia “Slick Julia” Lyons posed as a home nurse and then robbed them. First she would over-charge them for prescriptions ($63 for a $5 dose of oxygen) and then would flat out steal cash, jewelry, clothing, or any other valuables she could find.