› added 8 years ago

128

TIL that if Massachusetts were a country, its students would rank 9th in the world at math, 4th in the world at reading, and 2nd in the world at science, behind only Singapore..

Read more bdcwire.com

via reddit.com

e089E TIL Wolves make great foster parents and even adopt other species' offspring sometimes such as fox cubs!
kOXW1 TIL 19th century England was swept by "Egyptomania", a renewed interest in Egypt's past. Rich Victorians would travel to Egypt and bring back ancient mummies with which they would hold "mummy unwrapping parties" for their friends.
8a6AP TIL that The Drew Carey Show was the first TV show to have an episode simulcast on the Internet
GYAZJ TIL in 2008 David Spade gave $100,000 to the Phoenix Police Department toward the purchase of rifles for patrol officers
nXgG TIL: US States had the legal right to impose the “death penalty” on Corporations in the 18th and 19th century by revoking their corporate charters and selling off their assets.