› added 3 years ago

72

TIL that the brazilian club GREMIO installed speakers in their stadium to announce the signing of Ronaldinho Gaucho, 4 days later, he was announced by Flamengo

Read more beatlyzer.com

via beatlyzer.com

7ogM TIL that SOS doesn’t mean “save our ship” or “save our souls.” SOS doesn’t actually stand for anything at all and is used simply because of how easy it is to remember.
e0EQb TIL that the British town of Berwick Upon Tweed has changed between being part of Scotland and England 14 times. At one point its status was so ambiguous that declarations of war had to specify that nations were at war with "Scotland, England, and Berwick Upon Tweed."
1QY7 TIL At the high school graduation of Michael Reagan, Ronald Reagan’s adopted son, Ronald Reagan forgot who his son was, greeting him with “My name is Ronald Reagan. What’s yours?”
VMEEk TIL Thomas Payne argued in a 1797 pamphlet for an estate tax to fund elderly pensions and a one-time payment when a person reached 21
wooVJ TIL that a fire destroyed most of Harvard Library’s collection in 1764. Only a small number of books were spared, including 144 that were checked out at the time. One of these books was found and returned in 1997.