› added 12 years ago

80

TIL JS Bach wrote a cantata extolling the virtues of coffee. Lyrics include, “If I can’t drink my bowl of coffee three times daily, then in my torment, I will shrivel up like a piece of roast goat.”

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

b9wwp TIL that the nuclear warning systems for both US and Russia aim to detect a nuclear weapons before they hit the target so that a retaliation can be launched before their own weapons are destroyed. The system has given at least 22 false alarms which could have caused a nuclear war.
d8QaB TIL: Historically, in Britain, committing adultery with the Queen-Consort (the King's wife) was legally considered "high treason" , as was adultery with the wife of the heir to the throne, and fornication with the monarch's eldest unmarried daughter.
ADxea TIL Norman Fell (Mr. Roper) was reluctant to leave Three's Company to do a spin-off, but producers persuaded him by promising him the Ropers would return to Three's Company if the new show did not last one year. One month after the one year contract obligation expired, The Ropers was canceled.
WkJyA TIL in 1997, Pradyumna K. Mahanandia, a poor Indian artist, rode a second-hand bicycle for 4months and 3weeks from india to Gothenburg Sweden to meet his love Charlotte Von Schedvin. He rode his bicycle because he couldn't afford an airplane ticket. They are married now with two kids
vBm8 TIL in the real story of Mulan, when Mulan returns home, she finds her dad long dead, her mom remarried, and the emperor makes her his sex slave