X0RRX TIL After the revolt of unskilled industry workers in Florence in 1378, Michelle Di Lando, the son of a washerwoman, was chosen as president on the spot after storming the government seat barefooted. He soon made an alliance with the moderates, violently crushing the radical branch of the movement
OGmmL TIL the Medici line died out in 1743 with the death of Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici.
69OOY TIL that ice is a rock
woQQJ TIL reparations were awarded to former slave, Henrietta Wood, in 1878. Born into slavery, sold several times before being freed. Then kidnapped and resold. Her story, written by W. Caleb McDaniel says she bought a house and sent her son to law school and shows how reparations could change lives. 9
R5QQw TIL that life in the deep ocean live in part off of ‘Marine Snow’. It’s not snow. It’s poop, scales, and stuff.
W7WWX TIL that one of the founders of Sleep Country got addicted to crack after discovering his stripper girlfriend was an addict. When he tried to get her to quit, she suggested he try it to see how hard it was.
9weer TIL Yoko Ono's 7-year old daughter Kyoko was kidnapped by her father Tony Cox (Ono's ex-husband) in 1971. Yoko wouldn't see her daughter again until 1994 when Kyoko was 31 years old.
5V66r TIL of Operation Burnt Frost the Shoot Down of the Satellite USA 193 which was a mission of safeguarding human life against the uncontrolled re-entry of a 5,000-pound satellite containing over 1,000 pounds of hazardous hydrazine propellant.
x6xxb TIL after a 6-feet sevengill shark latched onto a man's ankle and severed one of his arteries, he called out for help to some nearby fishermen, but they weren't able hear him. However, his dog in his truck heard him and sprinted to his rescue by biting the shark's tail & pulling it off of his owner.
nW119 TIL One third of American Adults have some sort of criminal record.
4kwwR TIL it’s been illegal in Alabama to impersonate a priest since 1965, when out of state priests and nuns joined civil rights marches that shamed Alabama segregation
0dnnA TIL of the The F-15 Streak Eagle a purposely prepared F15 A aircraft that broke eight time-to-altitude records in 17 days (five of them in a single day) and was a major PR Stunt by the US Airforce.