› added 10 years ago

433

TIL if you are Jewish and can trace your ancestry back to the Spanish Inquisition (1492), you qualify today for Spanish citizenship.

Read more bbc.co.uk

via reddit.com

Y7p5W TIL that pure Gold will never rust or tranish because it dosn't react to Oxygen.
n95b TIL that hockey player Rich Peverley died on the bench from a cardiac episode, got revived by defibrillator, then asked to be put back in the game.
Ap0g TIL Quentin Tarantino Wanted Kurt Cobain as Pulp Fiction’s Lance the Jesus-esque drug dealer.
XEvAR TIL Too much exposure to sun or heat drains the flowers of their bright colors. Many flowers prefer morning sun and filtered afternoon light. Other causes of faded flower color include the fact that flowers generally fade after pollination.
yQB4J TIL: There are no names given to the numbers between googol, skewer’s number, centillion, and googolplex. And, there is apparently no Global agreement on naming large numbers.