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TIL due to rising yearly deaths in American football (18 in 1905, 26 by 1909) colleges in California switched their predominant game to rugby. By 1920 all colleges went back to American football. However, their expertise helped the USA win the rugby gold medal in the 1920 and 1924 Olympic Games

by whatilearned May 2, 2022, 11:11 pm

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TIL authors C.S. Lewis and Aldous Huxley both died on November 22nd, 1963. Their deaths weren’t as prominent in the news because of a more noteworthy death that occurred on that day: the assassination of John F. Kennedy

by whatilearned April 20, 2022, 12:07 pm

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TIL Mariam Soulakiotis, a Greek serial killer known as the Women Rasputin. She was a nun and allegedly killed 177 people at her monastery. She would torture wealthy women, making them donate all their money, before killing them. She also allegedly caused the deaths of 150 children by mistreating TB.

by whatilearned April 19, 2022, 11:56 pm

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At the Pearly Gates, St. Peter announces that due to overcrowding, only extremely gruesome deaths will be admitted into heaven today, sorry for any inconvenience

by cringeyjokesman April 19, 2022, 10:13 am

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TIL that the term “jaywalking” was invented by the auto industry as a way of shifting the blame for traffic crimes off automobile drivers and onto pedestrians, rather than out of an actual desire to decrease the number of pedestrian deaths due to automobiles.

by whatilearned April 16, 2022, 9:25 pm

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TIL that the U.S. government once poisoned all of the alcohol being sold in order to stop people from drinking alcohol, and this resulted in a lot of deaths.

by whatilearned April 16, 2022, 11:50 am

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TIL about “telling the bees,” a European tradition of informing bees about important events in their keepers’ lives, such as births, deaths, and marriages. It was believed that if the bees weren’t told, they would leave, stop producing honey, or die.

by whatilearned April 12, 2022, 2:35 am

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TIL of the Battle of May Island, a series of accidental collisions during WWI among Royal Navy vessels that resulted in 2 destroyed submarines, 3 damaged subs, 1 damaged cruiser, and 105 total deaths. No enemy forces were present.

by whatilearned April 4, 2022, 3:03 am

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TIL in 1644, Ming Dynasty general Wu Sangui was trapped at the Great Wall. Outside the wall was an invading Manchu horde, while behind the wall were peasant rebels who had overthrown the Ming Dynasty. He opened the gates, resulting in the Manchu conquest of China that caused 25 million deaths.

by whatilearned March 26, 2022, 2:32 am

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TIL in 2019 a woman was killed by a herd of wild boars outside a Texas home. There have been 6 reported deaths from feral hogs in US history. Wild boars – sometimes called hogs in the US – can weigh between 100 and 400lbs (45 to 180kg).

by whatilearned March 25, 2022, 1:43 am

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TIL after WWI it’s estimated that only 1 in 10 women were able to find a husband due to the 750,000 deaths Britain sustained

by whatilearned March 24, 2022, 1:06 pm

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If you could see how many deaths you were responsible for (humans, animals, bugs – all sorted), would you want to know who/what they were and how you were responsible? Why or why not?

by QuestionGuy March 24, 2022, 4:58 am

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