› added 4 years ago

123

TIL: The Great Whiskey Fire of Dublin in 1875 was when 5000 barrels of whiskey ignited and flowed into the streets. 13 people died that day, but not from burns or smoke inhalation. They died from alcohol poisoning after trying to drink it all.

Read more perryponders.com

via reddit.com

9YoQG TIL about Loreta Janeta Velasquez who was a woman that disguised herself as a man and fought alongside her husband in the Civil War.
9wNvr TIL new facial-recognition analysis appears to prove that Frank Morris and the Anglin brothers were, in fact, successful in their escape from Alcatraz.
p8kJb TIL That George Carlin’s infamous rant on the seven words you can't say on TV was central to the case FCC vs. Pacifica Foundation, in which the Supreme Court determined that Carlin’s language was “indecent but not obscene.”
kO4dg TIL of Tondalo Hall, who got 30 years for failing to stop a man from abusing her child. The man who abused her child got 2 years.
JYj6m TIL of a song called Prisencolinensinainciusol, a song by Italian Pop Singer Adriano Celentano - The lyrics are gibberish and meant to sound like English. This is how non-English speakers perceive English.