› added 1 month ago

5

TIL there is an archipelago just off the coast of Canada that is a French overseas territory. Its inhabitants are French and EU citizens.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

86ma TIL: [Will] “Smith’s wages were garnished 70 percent during the first three seasons [of Fresh Prince of Bel-Air] to pay his back taxes.”
Y7GDx TIL that it rained for a million years in Triassic
gMgv8 TIL that researchers at Draper Laboratory have genetically engineered a dragonfly to become a cyborg. It is equipped with a “backpack” of sensors, electronics and a solar panel and can be controlled remotely through its light sensitive “steering neurons”
9W9D TIL Nazi Germany offered several countries to take in their Jewish population before the Holocaust. No country opened their doors.
grYR4 TIL that the British royal family owns a stamp collection worth over £100 million. In 1904, The Prince of Wales paid £1,450 for a rare stamp. A courtier asked the prince if he had seen "that some damned fool had paid as much as £1,400 for one stamp". "Yes," George replied. "I was that damned fool!"