› added 5 years ago

753

TIL NASA launched a satellite after the USSR launched Sputnik, and it crashed in 3 seconds— so the press dubbed it ‘Kaputnik’

Read more nasa.gov

via reddit.com

gMlgy TIL The fear of palindromes, aibohphobia, is, quite sadistically, a palindrome.
96QG TIL in Albania there are the buneshas: a whole group of women who choose to remain virgins and live their live as men.
69Pd8 TIL two of hip-hop’s most influential producers, J Dilla and Nujabes, who both died in their early 30s, also shared the same birthday, February 7th 1974
dDmrZ TIL when Mongols defeated the Poles at the battle of Legnica, they beheaded king Henry II and paraded his head. His wife recognized his mutilated body by his eleventh toe.
nej0d TIL in 1832 after the death of philosopher Jeremy Bentham his body was preserved and displayed in the University College London, however his preserved head was henceforth placed in secure storage after it was stolen by several students and found in a luggage locker at a Scottish railway station.