› added 2 years ago

92

Today I learned the first vasectomy on record was performed on a dog in 1823.

Read more pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

via reddit.com

6EJE8 TIL about the "Mariko Aoki effect", which is when people have an urge to poop caused by visiting a bookstore
xVEbk TIL there is a city in Washington named 'George'. Every year, George, Washington celebrates the 4th of July by baking the world's largest cherry pie.
YYNr TIL in 2013 The Wall Street Journal discovered a cache of files that revealed the U.S. government lobotomized over 2000 veterans against their will after WW2. The veterans were lobotomized for reasons such as PTSD, depression, schizophrenia, and occasionally homosexuality.
ne85Y TIL primary school children in Scotland honored their class pets who had died with a Viking-style ceremony. They crafted boats from cardboard for goldfish Bubbles & Freddy, spoke dedications to the fish, and then set fire to the boat which was to carry their pets to the Viking Gods in Valhalla.
OA41 TIL ~900 Germans from the town of Demmin committed suicide in panic of the advancing Red Army. Mothers walked into rivers with a rock in a backpack and their babies in their arms. One man shot three young children, then their mothers, then his wife, then himself, but survived as a blind man.