› added 2 years ago

93

TIL Neolithic houses had doorways on the roof.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

DQvKv TIL: In pre revolutionary France, the tax was called the "taille", which was originally a way for peasants to pay to be exempt from the army. However, it was expanded afterwards. Nobles, clergy, and people living in Paris and Lyon were excluded.
E7pw TIL in 1770 a man invented a machine that could play a strong game of chess against a human opponent. The “android” that played the game was nicknamed The Turk (as was the machine itself). It wasn’t until 1857 that it was revealed to be a hoax (a chess master was hiding in the machine).
nrdr TIL In the Shawshank Redemption, Andy actually crawls through chocolate syrup in the sewer scene, and the tunnel where it was filmed still smells like chocolate today.
aWVN TIL Wikipedia doesn’t even need that much money
XEG1E TIL Dung Beetles navigate via the Milky Way, the first known species to do so in the animal kingdom