› added 10 years ago

80

TIL that the cougar, mountain lion, puma, panther, and catamount are all actually the same cat, the puma concolor.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

pYMdG TIL that in 2010, 83% of Chinese people reported having trouble writing characters according to a survey done by China Youth Daily. In another survey 60% of teachers complained of declining writing ability. This phenomenon is known as "Character Amnesia/提笔忘字".
xLg5 TIL Between 60-70% of the French prison population is Muslim.
8agBZ TIL The Uniform Monday Holiday Act (Pub.L. 90–363, 82 Stat. 250) is an Act of Congress that amended the federal holiday provisions of the United States Code to establish the observance of certain holidays on Mondays (including Memorial Day, formerly May 30th). Signed: 6/28/1968; Effective: 1/1/1971
xYr7 TIL that “tobogganing” is what you call when a penguin glides through their stomach
16kEW TIL of "Man Walking Around a Corner", a precursor of film shot in August of 1887. The work is not a film, but a series of 16 photographs, each taken from one of the 16 lenses from Louis Le Prince's camera. A year later, he made the world's first moving image in October 1888, "Roundhay Garden Scene".