TIL at the decisive Battle of Grandson in 1476, the entire Castle Grandson garrison surrendered only to be summarily hung from a rope and dragged through the lake until they drowned. They were executed just before Swiss reinforcements arrived.
https://ift.tt/BS26yuw

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TIL the idea of continental drift wasn't widely accepted in the scientific community until the 1960s. This is ~40 years after quantum mechanics was solidified in the 5th Solvay Conference (1927)!
https://ift.tt/5fD6arZ

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TIL Daniel Tammet, an autistic savant who speaks 10 languages, described how numbers appear to him in terms of shape, color, and texture. For him, 289 is ugly, 333 is attractive, and pi is beautiful.
https://ift.tt/tIzoe4b

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TIL Ash Ketchum only caught 57 unique individual Pokémon over the course of the series, roughly 7% of the Pokémon available to him.
https://ift.tt/kY5gBNy

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TIL that Willie Nelson was married to Martha Matthew. The marriage was marked by violence, as Matthews assaulted Nelson on several occasions. On one occasion, she sewed him up in bedsheets and beat him with a broomstick.
https://ift.tt/SuhLFAX

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TIL the USS Scorpion was lost at sea in May 1968 with 99 men lost. The wreckage was found almost two miles deep, making it impossible to determine the cause of accident. Underwater acoustics out of the Canary Islands heard the exact time of the implosion but were unaware it was the sub sinking.
https://ift.tt/5Sf3kDo

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TIL that British judges and lawyers wear white wigs to bring formality, solemnity, and anonymity to the courtroom
https://ift.tt/gC2SdPB

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TIL when Wilt Chamberlain had his famous 100 point NBA game, he shot his free throws "granny style." A usually poor free throw shooter, that night he made 86% of his attempts.
https://ift.tt/oJzAu4y

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TIL that Don Johnson met Melanie Griffith when she was 14-year-old. When she was 15 and Johnson was 23, she and Johnson began living together. On her 18th birthday they became engaged and were married in January 1976.
https://ift.tt/Ys7acQG

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TIL that both George Washington and Thomas Jefferson were skeptical of the results of the 1790 United States Census. They believed that the true population was higher than the total of 3,929,214 people counted in the Census.
https://ift.tt/LFlJkG4

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