Did you Know?

https://www.didyouknowdaily.com/story/everest-bodies

Can you guess where the world's largest open-air graveyard is? Clue: Everyone knows its name... and all those resting there enter alive

-VR

@Very-Rusty

Wouldn't be Mount Everest by any chance?

@blood-on-the-tracks said
@Very-Rusty

Wouldn't be Mount Everest by any chance?

Indeed, very good if you didn't sneak a peek! 😉

-VR

https://www.didyouknowdaily.com/story/kowloon-walled-city

For most of the 20th century, this strange lawless city was the most densely populated place on Earth. Can you guess where it was?

-VR

https://www.didyouknowdaily.com/story/mosquito-device

Have you ever seen one of these boxes in your neighborhood? Despite its name, the controversial "Mosquito Device" has nothing to do with insects

Interesting what it turned out to be.

-VR

https://www.didyouknowdaily.com/story/huberta-hippo

In 1930, this hippo did the unthinkable. Instead of staying with the crowd, she embarked on her own epic adventure 🦛

-VR

https://www.didyouknowdaily.com/story/the-queens-cousins

It was widely believed that Queen Elizabeth II's two first-cousins were dead. The haunting truth was as shocking as it was sad 😢

-VR

https://www.didyouknowdaily.com/story/oradour-sur-glane


In 1944, this little boy spotted something from his classroom window. Within hours, something entirely unimaginable had happened 😢

-VR

https://www.didyouknowdaily.com/story/tomato-trial

In 1820, tomatoes went on trial in a U.S. courthouse. Can you guess where? Clue: A similar town had already had a LOT of practice

-VR

https://www.didyouknowdaily.com/story/forty-elephants

The "Forty Elephants" were a group of women who instilled fear in the hearts of London shopkeepers for nearly a century. Their cunning technique was honed to perfection

-VR

https://www.didyouknowdaily.com/story/ivy-league-scandal

Between the 1940s and the 1970s, Ivy League colleges had a shocking requirement for incoming students. It continues to haunt alumni.

This is dedicated to The-Gravedigger to help educate him.
You're Welcome!

-VR

@very-rusty said
https://www.didyouknowdaily.com/story/ivy-league-scandal

Between the 1940s and the 1970s, Ivy League colleges had a shocking requirement for incoming students. It continues to haunt alumni.

This is dedicated to The-Gravedigger to help educate him.
You're Welcome!

-VR

you often say you're welcome
who is thanking you?

https://www.didyouknowdaily.com/story/sailor-tattoos

Many sailors used to have a pig and a rooster tattooed on their feet. Can you guess why?

This one dedicated to Lemon for his humble contribution to the thread. 🙂

-VR

https://www.didyouknowdaily.com/story/cottingley-fairies

In 1917, these two girls captivated the world with a series of extraordinary photographs. But what had they really seen at the river?

-VR

https://www.didyouknowdaily.com/story/forerunner-modern-technology

Can you guess what this invention was? Clue: It would take eight decades before it arrived in the form we now know it as

-VR