› added 10 years ago

426

TIL the world’s largest jellyfish – the lion’s mane – is longer than a blue whale.

Read more mentalfloss.com

via reddit.com

YpL0A TIL before the metric system was adopted, there was over 250,000 different units of measurement in France varying from town to town.
pY8ab TIL : Val Kilmer has lost his voice, quite literally. The only way we may hear speak again is through a computer program
v1Q0L TIL The Knights of Malta (aka Hospitallers) are considered the world's smallest sovereign state and even issue their own passports.
91jQ TIL that when Theodore Roosevelt’s parents were unsatisfied with his and the other children’s command of German, they shipped them off to live in Dresden for 5 months with a German family
Y1RB TIL The origin of the word “Honky” may be from white patrons of black prostitutes in the early 1900s who would honk their horn instead of rolling down the window to talk.