› added 5 years ago

94

TIL that an English Earl was once king of Germany

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

mxbXR TIL Non-profit Dog is my CoPilot has shuttled over 15,000 animals from high shelter population areas to adoption centers throughout the US.
N6nQ TIL That fulmars, a type of seabird, vomit a putrid fishy oil on their assailants in self-defense. Not only does it smell horrific, but it’s lethal to predatory birds because it permanently glues their feathers together.
mxkPy TIL that almost 4,000 years ago, ancient Egyptian teachers used red ink to correct spelling mistakes, just like today.
JY9Ym TIL about two little-known places with the world's shortest names. "Å" (population 150) is a tiny fishing hamlet in the Lofoten Islands, a granite chain in north-west Norway, in the Arctic circle, while "Y" is an even smaller French village, with only 29 inhabitants.
JYjpB TIL that in 1825 painter Samuel Morse received a letter which read that his wife was sick. The day after that a new one said that she was dead. When 2 days later he went to his wife, he discovered that she was already buried. Pissed off for the slowness of communications, he invented the Morse code.