› added 2 years ago

411

TIL about Shani Shingnapur, an Indian village with no doors.

Read more bbc.com

via reddit.com

D17wr TIL that in 1950, four students from Glasgow stole the Stone of Scone from Westminster Abbey and smuggled it back to Scotland in a Ford Anglia. The stone, also called the Coronation Stone, is the stone upon which British royalty is crowned, and was taken by the English from Scotland in 1296.
xVGob TIL Kim Jong-nam's murderers thought they were taking part in a TV pranking show by wiping baby lotion on his face. The lotion contained a highly toxic VX nerve agent, they had no idea.
awA40 TIL of Ball Lightning, an unexplained phenomena where a luminous ball of what looks like lightning appears at ground level, moving unpredictably and 'bouncing off buildings, people and cars'. Despite many accounts, very little is known about why it occurs.
e0YX6 TIL that 30 years ago you had 15-17 minutes to escape a house fire. Nowadays you only have 3-5 minutes (due to more plastics & petroleum-based products in the house as well as more open floor plans, bigger rooms, & higher ceilings).
7Ka7 TIL that Humpty Dumpty was never explicitly described as an egg. That was added later by illustrators in the book.