› added 4 years ago

107

TIL the ancient Greeks were heavily influenced by the Egyptians, who would frequently welcome them and even teach them their language and culture

Read more blog.oup.com

via reddit.com

loa85 TIL Designed by Benjamin Franklin, the first official circulation coin of United States was inscribed with the words "Mind Your Business"
781mZ TIL John Heisman, whom the Heisman Trophy was named for, was Georgia Tech's head coach for its 222-0 game against Cumberland and ran up the score as payback for Cumberland baseball team's thrashing Heisman's coached GA Tech baseball team 22-0 earlier in the same year.
j6JMj TIL In 2007, John Galvan and two others were serving a life sentence when he saw a MythBusters' episode "Hollywood on Trial." which debunks a cigarette igniting gasoline. In Chicago, 1986, John was forced to sign a false confession, saying that's how the fire started. They were exonerated in 2022.
QNLB6 TIL, after the death of 27-year-old physicist Henry Moseley at Gallipoli (WWI, 1915), the British Government placed a ban on other scientists of repute serving in front-line roles. Ernest Rutherford believed that Moseley's work would have earned him the Nobel Prize.
Bx7e TIL multicellular life only has 800 million years left on Earth, at which point, there won’t be enough CO2 in the atmosphere for photosynthesis to occur.