› added 4 years ago

280

TIL: Twerking, as a Dance, Traces It's Lineage Back Through The Caribbean, All The Way To The Ivory Coast

Read more vocal.media

via reddit.com

J1Pkv TIL the USS New York was partially constructed from steel salvaged from the ruins of the World Trade Centers
1mZX TIL that eating lychees, especially unripe, can trigger a fatal brain swelling (encephalopathy) in malnourished children.
yVPga TIL about the Barnes Opening, considered one of the worst chess openings and deemed as having almost no strategic advantages and a lot of drawbacks.
nR8d TIL that if you send a letter to Israel addressed to god, they will place it in the Western Wall, where visitors traditionally place handwritten notes of prayer and wishes in the cracks between its stones.
Ooyv6 TIL that Geoffrey Tandy, a marine biologist who specialised in cryptogams (algae, moss, etc.), was recruited to a secret British codebreaking organization during WWII because the Ministry of Defence confused “cryptogamist” with “cryptogramist.” Tandy ended up helping to crack the Enigma code anyway.