› added 4 years ago

49

TIL Canadian Inuk writer Mitiarjuk Nappaaluk never had formal education before she was twenty. In the 1950s, she started writing a novel in Inuktitut syllabics when a missionary asked her to write some sentences in Inuktitut so he could learn the language

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

pYeDO TIL John Wojtowicz, who unsuccessfully tried to rob a bank in 1972 to pay for his wife Eden's gender reassignment surgery. Wojtowicz had based his plans on the movie, "The Godfather" (1972), which he had watched earlier that day
91Y7 TIL many common earth worms are invasive species to North America, and are causing great harm to forests
Z808G TIL The number of men working in a lighthouse in the UK was increased from 2 to 3 following an 1801 incident where one half of a duo died, the other placed him outside and was then driven mad by the wind causing his dead colleagues arm to appear to beckon him.
mdGO TIL that American Psycho writer Bret Easton Ellis tried to order cocaine from his dealer but instead of texting him he accidentally tweeted it to his 350k followers.
lob1a TIL Harrison Ford got his ear pierced at the popular preteen store, Claire’s Accessories. After the piercing he signed a notepad to the woman who pierced his ear: "To Tavora. You made a hole in me. Harrison Ford."