› added 1 year ago

112

TIL that more international travellers visited Italy than Turkey in 2023

Read more hotellerie-pambianconews-com.translate.goog

via reddit.com

4kgj6 TIL that this is how American school children addressed the flag during the pledge until 1942, when it was changed to the hand over the heart.
1BMV TIL an ancient Persian poet recorded the fable of a King who challenged wise men to make him a ring that would make him both happy when he was sad and sad when he was happy. They succeeded by giving him a ring etched with the phrase “This Too Shall Pass.”
9gWB TIL: Typographic Rivers are the gaps in typesetting, which appear to run through a paragraph of text, due to a coincidental alignment of spaces.
VrgD TIL Przewalski’s horse is the only truly wild horse left in the world. Other horses like American mustangs or Australian brumbies are feral domesticated horses.
Xde6 TIL that in 1915, scam artist Charles Hatfield convinced the town of San Diego that he could create rainfall using a secret mix of chemicals. The city offered to pay him $10,000 if he could end their drought, and the ‘result,’ a few days later, was the town’s worst flood of the 20th century.