› added 9 years ago

122

TIL Nobody was burned at the stake during the Salem Witch Trials. Most people convicted of witchcraft were hanged and one man was crushed with stones.

Read more smithsonianmag.com

via reddit.com

Mxr8 TIL In 1943, the Japanese ordered the execution of 98 American workers on Wake Island, one nameless man escaped and returned later to carve out a tombstone on the rock near the mass grave. He was caught and beheaded by the Rear Admiral himself.
OGoWe TIL that in Haitian rural folklore, there are actually two kinds of zombies: the more widely known corporeal zombie, which is missing its spirit, and the "zombie astral," which is missing its body.
6EgwJ We are going to the moon again to make It a gas station for outer space. "The plan is to break down the lunar ice into hydrogen and oxygen and use those as the fuel propellant."
jN6QQ TIL The League of Women Voters used to run presidential debates that gave every nominee a equal amount of time to speak, Republicans and Democrats joined together to make the Commission for Presidential Debates, making it harder for third parties to be fairly represented
6EWaY TIL that about 1 in 600 people have a single horseshoe-shaped, fused super kidney. This congenital condition often goes undiscovered as it is asymptomatic.