Goiânia accident - Hundreds poisoned by radiation after being fascinated by the glowing Caesium they distributed to friends, relatives and neighbors ( en.wikipedia.org )
Darlie Routier - Mother on death row for allegedly murdering her sons, charges she continue to deny and pin on an intruder ( en.wikipedia.org )
Lake Nyos disaster - Wikipedia ( en.wikipedia.org )
List of unexplained sounds - Wikipedia ( en.wikipedia.org )
TIL that after psychologist Timothy Leary was sentenced to prison, he had to take a test that he himself created. He used his knowledge to be assigned to a lower-security prison and escaped. ( en.wikipedia.org )
On January 21, 1970, Leary received a ten-year sentence for his 1968 offense, with a further ten added later while in custody for a prior arrest in 1965, for a total of 20 years to be served consecutively. On his arrival in prison, he was given psychological tests used to assign inmates to appropriate work details. Having...
TIL about the "The Boring Billion", a time period from 1.8 to 0.8 billion years ago characterized by more or less tectonic stability, climatic stasis, and stalled biological evolution. ( en.wikipedia.org )
Klaus Barbie - Unrelated to the recent movie. "Butcher of Lyon", Nazi officer, worked for US army after WWII, they helped him escape to Bolivia, where he worked for local dictators for 30 years. ( en.wikipedia.org )
TIL that Singapore is the only country in the world that gained independence against its will. It was expelled from Malaysia in 1965, after a 126-0 vote in the Malaysian parliament. ( en.wikipedia.org )
You can be the one to create the kbin page on wikipedia ( en.wikipedia.org )
Secure a place in history. Create the source material for hundreds of journalists, bloggers and shitposters writing about the downfall of reddit and the rise of the threadiverse. (also missing!)...
Fritzl case - Josef Fritzl held his daughter captive in their basement for 24 years, raped her which resulted the birth of 7 children. They were found in 2008, Amstetten, Austria ( en.wikipedia.org )
There are other unbelievable parts of the story:...
TIL that in 2010 the stock market experienced a flash crash, caused by automatic trading. Over a trillion dollars were lost and mostly regained, all in 36 minutes. Exact causes remain disputed. ( en.wikipedia.org )
Genie (feral child) ( en.wikipedia.org )
TIL about Eugene Debs, a 1920 Socialist candidate who ran for President while jailed in Federal prison for sedition, receiving 3.4% of the vote at the time. He promised to pardon himself if elected. ( en.wikipedia.org )
Eugene Debs, a Socialist leader in the early 20th century, ran for President five times. His fifth and highest vote count came in the 1920 Presidential election, in which he was running while in Federal prison for sedition. He received about 3.4% of the vote at the time (which included women for the first time since the...
Nine familial exterminations - An extreme form of capital punishment in Premodern China, by which the criminal's entire family was killed along with him ( en.wikipedia.org )
Harold Shipman - English general practitioner found guilty of murdering fifteen patients under his care ( en.wikipedia.org )
Kim Wall - Swedish journalist that was murdered and dismembered by Danish entrepreneur Peter Madsen inside his midget submarine ( en.wikipedia.org )
Lithopedion - Wikipedia ( en.wikipedia.org )
Fremont Troll - An 18-ft. tall troll made of concrete that sits underneath the George Washington Memorial Bridge in Seattle ( en.wikipedia.org )
Georgia Guidestones - Huge granite stones inscribed with words of advice that the author intended to “guide humanity forward”, destroyed in 2022 ( en.wikipedia.org )
Chris Benoit - Former wrestling champion known as the "Rabid Wolverine" who tragically murdered his wife and son before taking his own life ( en.wikipedia.org )
Song of Songs - Section in the Bible containing extensive and candid sexual content ( en.wikipedia.org )
Setagaya family murder - Unsolved murder of Japanese family whose assailant remained in the family's house for several hours to eat ice cream and use the potty before disappearing ( en.wikipedia.org )
TIL Kowloon Walled City existed and is the real world origin for many visual representations of oppressive urbanization in cyberpunk media ( en.wikipedia.org )
I came across a video on Youtube discussing it (there are several), and Kowloon Walled City is just endlessly fascinating. A few notable videos I found on the subject were:...
NTFS turns 30 years old today! I hear it's still in use by some crufty old legacy operating systems 😁 ( en.wikipedia.org )
Happy 30th Birthday "New Technology" File System! Thanks for 30 years of demonstrating Linux superiority with a gap that widens with every new kernel release 👍
Euthanasia Coaster - Wikipedia ( en.wikipedia.org )
