› added 13 years ago

129

TIL The United Kingdom is the only country that does not identify itself by name on postage stamps because the postage stamp was invented in the UK.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

nWEQ7 TIL the German airline Lufthansa is derived from Luft meaning air and Hansa, the trading empire that dominated Europe in the Middle Ages.
e6LJ TIL Sony sold more than 12 million 3.5 inch floppy disks… in 2009
Vxw8 TIL the famous scene from the film Heat, where De Niro’s criminal and Pacino’s detective talk face to face over coffee, was based on the true story of a Detective Adamson tracking down a criminal McCauley in the 1960s. The two met for coffee and had a conversation almost word for word as in the film
n6rb TIL the oldest tree ever to be discovered(5,000 years old) was killed by a man who was trying to discover it’s age.
rRRZe Glug glug glug...