🥷
💡
💡 Fun Facts
💡

if you bought a lottery ticket in 16th Century England it came with the added bonus of being a get out of jail free card . Every participant was granted immunity from one arrest, as long as the crime wasn t extremely serious, like murder or treason.

•1 min read


Fun Fact: if you bought a lottery ticket in 16th Century England it came with the added bonus of being a ‘get out of jail free card’. Every participant was granted immunity from one arrest, as long as the crime wasn’t extremely serious, like murder or treason.

Source favicon

Source

en.wikipedia.org

Share this fascinating fact! 🥷

Share on XDiscover more facts

💡More Fun Facts

Keep exploring and learning

that in the operatic song in The Fifth Element, composer Eric Sierra purposely wrote un-singable things so she’d sound like an alien. When opera singer Inva Muls came for the part, she sang 85% of what [Eric] thought was technically impossible , the rest being assembled in the studio.

Read →

that in the operatic song in The Fifth Element, composer Eric Sierra purposely wrote un-singable things so she’d sound like an alien. When opera singer Inva Muls came for the part, she sang 85% of what [Eric] thought was technically impossible , the rest being assembled in the studio.

Read →

that when 16th century Russian church services grew enormously long, rather than eliminate any part of the ceremony, the church opted to save time by performing up to six parts of the service simultaneously. This led to absurd situations where numerous cantors were shouting over each other.

Read →

After The Washington Post was bought in 2013, one of the proposed concepts was to put in a function that would let a reader take out the vowels from a piece they didn t like, with the thought that another reader would have to pay to put the vowels back.

Read →

about a Brazilian Con artist called Carlos Kaiser, who had a decade long career as a Football player, and managed to sign for multiple teams, without player even one regular game. The one time he almost had to play, he started a fight during, to get a Red Card, avoiding to actually play.

Read →

Charles Darwin spent 6 months in South America looking for a lesser rhea (an ostrich-like bird) only to have one served to him for dinner. Halfway through the meal, Darwin realized what he was eating, gathered the parts and sent them to England for taxidermy and formal classification.

Read →
Explore All Fun Facts