› added 2 years ago

187

TIL that author Harriet Beecher Stowe (Uncle Tom's Cabin) and Mark Twain (Huckleberry Finn) were next door neighbors.

Read more connecticuthistory.org

via reddit.com

mM TIL that without the support of Lucille Ball (“I Love Lucy”) Star Trek may have ceased to exist.
N7yrJ TIL that although you can't buy alcohol in the United States until you're 21, you can legally run for governor of California, Massachusetts , Ohio, Rhode Island, Washington and Wisconsin when you're 18.
VZrm TIL the last legal duel in Canada was between two men for the love of a local schoolteacher.
v1jYD TIL the German folklore of Frau Perchta, a witch who would roam the German countryside for 12 days leading up to Christmas, leaving silver coins to good children and cut open the bellies and replace the organs of bad children with straw and pebbles.
dDDZQ TIL about the Nizari Ismaili state, better known as the hashashin. A religious state founded by Hassan-I sabbah who waged a war against the Seljuk empire using assassination and guerilla warfare before the state was destroyed by the mongols.