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TIL that at the height of its power the Hudson’s Bay Company claimed eight million square kilometres in North America as its own and even had its own currency called "Made Beaver" (it valued goods by placing them against the standard of one prime beaver pelt)

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P1pLV TIL that objects known as optical frequency multipliers can double the frequency of a beam of light. This means that it's possible for them to convert invisible light (infrared) into visible light
o6A8 TIL that John Horwood, a stalker convicted of murdering a young woman in 1821, was sentenced to dissection by a court in Bristol, UK. A surgeon peeled and consequently tanned his skin and made it into a book called “the skin of John Horwood”, recording his findings within.
p86de TIL Classical Greece wasn't filled with pure white marble everything. The statues and ruins we see today were actually painted in all kinds of vivid colors that were just stripped bare back to their original white marble by time.
VnV8 TIL The Sami are Norway’s indigenous people.Their culture is over 11,000 years old. They live in tents called (lavvo) and follow the reindeer herds around for all their sustenance. Reindeer herding is central to Sami culture providing meat, fur and reindeer sledding is their transportation..
8aBKa TIL Syphilis had many historical names. In Germany it was The French Disease. In France it was The Italian Disease. In Holland it was The Spanish Disease. In Russia it was The Polish Disease. The Turks called it The Christian Disease.