› added 11 years ago

84

TIL There is a Monastery in Portugal that has a specially designed well in its kitchen where fish would swim into its canals and get trapped, giving the Monks fresh fish every day.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

jNdrv TIL Narcissist abusers learn about your insecurities and use this knowledge maliciously to provoke you. Their faux "innocence" works to catch you off guard and make you believe that they truly didn’t intend to hurt you, until it happens so often you can’t deny the reality of their malice any longer.
nexnW TIL on May 24, 1996, a drive-in theater in Canada was destroyed by a tornado when the theater was scheduled to show the 1996 disaster movie ‘Twister’. In ‘Twister,’ a scene parallels the exact event of the theater destruction by a tornado during a showing of ‘The Shining.’
QJVxe TIL the Premier league and other professional football leagues use an algorithmic method of measuring possession percentage during a game. It is not based time spent with the ball, but rather on the number of passes completed.
j6eGX TIL that the inscription "Arbeit macht frei" ("Work makes you free") above the entrance gate to the Auschwitz camp is no longer the original, which has been kept in a museum since it was stolen and found cut into pieces in 2009.
Wjl9 TIL of Jury Nullification, the “secret” right for juries to find technically-guilty defendants in criminal cases Not Guilty, because the law they’re accused of violating is perceived by the jurors as unjust. Even knowing it exists as an option will likely prevent you from ever serving on a jury.