TIL Marquis de Sade wrote, 120 Days of Sodom, imprisoned in the Bastille but he was transferred to an asylum in 1785, couldn’t retrieve his manuscript, and assumed it was lost in the revolution. The manuscript was actually found two days before the attack and kept private to be published in 1904. by whatilearned August 16, 2022, 11:07 am 1 Point Upvote Downvote
26 Comments TIL: Relatives of a deceased male can ask for Posthumous sperm retrieval. This involves electrocuting the prostate to retrieve sperm. by whatilearned December 7, 2021, 11:40 pm 12 Points Upvote Downvote
24 Comments 1,000 years from now archeologists retrieve your browsing history, what conclusions do they draw about human society in our time? by QuestionGuy November 28, 2021, 6:56 am 12 Points Upvote Downvote
16 Comments TIL that the head of snake can still independently bite and envenomate people after being decapitated: A Texas man was nearly killed in a “headless snake attack” when he went to retrieve the head of a rattlesnake he had killed with a shovel by whatilearned October 14, 2021, 11:11 am 12 Points Upvote Downvote
6 Comments TIL that famous English poet and painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti buried most of his poems with his late wife in Highgate Cemetery of London, then later had her exhumed so he could retrieve them. by whatilearned October 11, 2021, 3:30 pm 12 Points Upvote Downvote
8 Comments TIL that Fallopian tubes are not fixed in place, but are actually mobile. If one Fallopian tube is removed, for example, the remaining one can actually retrieve eggs from either ovary, even crossing over to find the eggs of the opposite ovary. by whatilearned September 23, 2021, 11:14 pm 12 Points Upvote Downvote
2 Comments TIL In 1984, Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky released a computer game called “Mindwheel” where the player traverses the minds and memories of deceased individuals. The goal is to retrieve the Mindwheel, which “contains the secret of the world’s best values.” by whatilearned July 5, 2021, 3:57 am 12 Points Upvote Downvote
6 Comments TIL that in the 70s, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, tried creating its own artificial coral reef by dumping some 2 million used tires into the ocean. It became an environmental disaster, naturally, but also a military training exercise when divers had to retrieve the tires (almost one by one). by whatilearned April 25, 2021, 3:45 pm 12 Points Upvote Downvote
3 Comments TIL The Liberator. A 2.10$, single-shot (no magazine) pistol; It was shipped with 10 rounds and an instruction sheet in comic strip air-dropped on Axis-occupied lands; A resistance fighter was to sneak up on an Axis occupier, kill or incapacitate him using the gun, and retrieve his weapons. by whatilearned April 13, 2021, 4:40 pm 12 Points Upvote Downvote
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