› added 6 years ago

178

TIL In 1710, famous author Jonathan Swift wrote an article on "the continual Corruption of our English Tongue" in which he described the word "bamboozle" as one of the words that were in his opinion, "corroding, if not destroying, the English language"

Read more word-detective.com

via reddit.com

rNWDx TIL that Bothie the Polar Dog is the only dog to travel to both the South and North Poles. No other dog is expected to match Bothie's achievement of visiting both poles after the Antarctic Treaty of 1994, which has subsequently forbidden dogs from the Antarctic continent.
x6b8k TIL According to a 2019 survey on 4500+ Americans, the average age that children stop believing in Santa Claus is 8.4 y.o. The oldest average comes from the state of Mississippi at 10.2 y.o.
78nRM TIL that hippos cannot swim. Their bodies are too dense and sink to the bottom, which they run along.
oRJZ7 TIL There are 12 Common Wild Horse Breeds Around the World
a8eVy TIL that while filming tokyo drift, the crew couldn't get a permit to film a scene in shibuya, but they filmed it anyway and paid a guy to pretend to be the director and spend a night in jail instead of the actual director