› added 6 months ago

30

TIL that in medieval Europe, animals were put on trial for crimes

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

M7xYB TIL Matthew Weiner got his job on the The Sopranos because David Chase liked a spec script Weiner wrote, that script would go on to be the pilot for Mad Men.
Y7KoB TIL Lou Pai, one of Enron executives, resigned and sold his shares for $250 million to get divorced and marry a stripper. The company collapsed few months later.
PY1MG TIL the founder of the Alaskan Independence Party, which advocates Alaska's secession from the United States, was murdered in a botched plastic explosives sale and was buried in Dawson City, Yukon, reflecting his oft-stated wish not to be buried on American soil.
78ryb TIL During the Machado dictatorship in Cuba, Havana citizens were forbidden to dance the conga, because rival groups would work themselves to high excitement and explode into street fighting.
pY14O TIL In 2018 over a million people in Hawaii woke up to a text message warning them of imminent inbound ballistic missiles. Despite the line indicating "This is not a drill", it was in fact sent in error.