› added 6 years ago

94

TIL that birds are dinosaurs.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

wRbo TIL Archaeologists have unearthed a pair of bongs made of pure gold that date back to 2,400 years ago.
XbmQ TIL of British fighter pilot Robert Stanford Tuck. After forcing a German bomber to jettison its payload in the countryside instead of over a city, it caught the corner of an Army training camp, killing one man. His sister’s Husband.
grjNy TIL that Jodi Benson of The Little Mermaid was the voice actress for EVA in the Metal Gear Solid but performed under a pseudonym due to her association with child-friendly media.
LQK9r TIL Ottoman Sultans were legally allowed to execute their brothers, however the practice ended after 1595, when Mehmet III killed 19 of his brothers in the same evening, the youngest being 11 years old. After this incident, they switched to keeping their male relatives locked in the harem for life
P10GE TIL Unlike the majority of the US, Delaware was once a Swedish colony called New Sweden, established during the Thirty Years' War. Settlements were established in present-day Delaware, New Jersey, Maryland, and Pennsylvania. New Sweden existed from 1638 to 1655 before being conquered by the Dutch