› added 3 years ago

294

TIL there is a neurological condition called Witzelsucht that gives one an "uncontrollable tendency to pun"

Read more bbc.com

via reddit.com

pGwZ TIL a frontiersman, known for eating the livers of his enemies, escaped his captures by cutting off the leg of his guard and using it as a weapon.
gMNEX TIL In 2019, the Wuhan Greenland Center under construction had its height scaled back from 636m to less than 500m
g0g4 TIL the US Air Force accidentally dropped two atomic bombs 260x more powerful than Hiroshima on North Carolina but a low-voltage safety switch prevented disaster.
8aKO4 TIL of The Essex, an American ship which was attacked by a sperm whale in 1820. The 20-man crew set out in the surviving life boats for several months, resorting to drawing lots to decide who would be sacrificed and consumed. 8 men survived. The story was the inspiration for the novel 'Moby Dick'.
VMbop TIL Body dysmorphic disorder, occasionally still called dysmorphophobia, is a mental disorder characterized by the obsessive idea that some aspect of one's own body part or appearance is severely flawed and therefore warrants exceptional measures to hide or fix it