Original_Sail t1_j68gdg1 wrote on January 28, 2023 at 2:16 PM

Reply to comment by transnavigation in TIL about foreign accent syndrome. This is a very rare (~100 cases worldwide) but real medical condition where people abruptly begin speaking in a foreign accent following head trauma like a bad migraine, accident, or stroke. by veety

I have this issue. I had to fight it really hard when i worked tech support on the phone because customers don't want to think you're mocking them and are quick to assume it

Original_Sail t1_j5dyc9g wrote on January 22, 2023 at 8:04 AM

Reply to TIL that cats are more vocal with humans than with other cats. by Everyusernametaken1

They talk to us the way they do to their kittens. It's honestly fascinating

Original_Sail t1_j37gk10 wrote on January 6, 2023 at 3:54 PM

Reply to comment by RPi79 in TIL of execution by Breaking Wheel that would start with tying the body to a wheel, breaking the bones of the limbs, braiding the broken limbs through the spokes and leaving the body to be eaten by scavenging animals and birds. by muadib1974

Or the blood eagle

Original_Sail t1_itg72rw wrote on October 23, 2022 at 12:26 PM

Reply to comment by lordatomosk in TIL that a prison riot in 1985 on Spike Island near Cork, Ireland, ended after a mother of a prisoner heard what was happening, came to the island,& roared at her son through a megaphone after he had been on a roof for hours; it took only a few minutes of shouting & the remaining prisoners came down by newshoeshudis

And angry grannies