› added 5 months ago

34

TIL the tallest candidate wins the majority of US presidential elections

Read more voanews.com

via reddit.com

wLnvW TIL that Jennefer Lopez is not in fact married or even related to George Lopez
1aaPr TIL after the India-Pakistan partition in August 1947, the Reserve Bank of India served as the Central Bank of Pakistan till June 1948
NXre8 TIL Nintendo was founded in 1889 as a playing card company. They didn’t make their first video game until 1978.
D1wwY TIL William Henry Harrison, the 9th U.S. president, gave the longest presidential inauguration speech, in pouring rain, from which he contracted a cold that severely worsened, killing him and making him the shortest serving U.S. president.
8eRDK TIL about the classical period of witch hunts in early modern europe and colonial america took place around 1450 to 1750.Modern scholarly estimates place the total number of executions for witchcraft in the 300-year period of European witch-hunts in the five digits b/w 35000 to 50000