› added 5 years ago

263

TIL that a couple invited Queen Elizabeth to their wedding as a joke but the queen actually showed up.

Read more cnn.com

via reddit.com

VMalQ TIL Sigmund Freud considered believing in a single god to be a delusion. He also stated that religion "comprises a system of wishful illusions together with a disavowal of reality, such as we find in an isolated form nowhere else but amentia, in a state of blissful hallucinatory confusion".
pYeGZ TIL of the Dutch nurse Lucia de Berk, who was falsely convicted of killing 4 children under her care. She spent 6 years in jail before she was exonerated.
NXE7Q TIL that NASA's Parker Solar Probe is the fastest object ever built. It is estimated to reach a top speed of 191 km/s (430,000 mph) in 2025, 0.064% the speed of light.
0d0r1 TIL Hitler, as Chancellor of Germany in 1933, implemented policies to improve the economy, including privatization of state-owned industries, import tariffs, and autarky. This led to reduced foreign trade, resulting in rationing of consumer goods like poultry, fruit, and clothing for many Germans.
6E4G8 TIL The Allies considered bombing Auschwitz in an effort to stop operations at the concentration camp.