› added 4 years ago

273

TIL During WW2, the US created information material for its white soldiers about to be stationed in Britain, warning them that they would have to cope with black soldiers joining them in pubs. "It might not happen at home, but the point is, we are not at home".

Read more youtube.com

via reddit.com

ne5xG TIL of the Biltmore Estate, a Châteauesque-style mansion built for George Washington Vanderbilt II and is the largest privately owned house in the United States.The grounds and buildings of Biltmore Estate have appeared in a number of movies such as the house of Richard "Richie" Rich, Jr.
9wOZM TIL that itally has its own distinctive variety of rice
5Ybj8 TIL the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) had a massive coffee shortage in the 70s. As such, the SED (Social Unity Party) contacted Angola, Cuba, and especially Vietnam, to trade weapons for high quality coffee beans.
6E5Om TIL: Punchcards were invented to solve the problem of the 1890 US Census. It took 8 years to process the data of the 1880 census, so Herman Hollerith invented punch cards for tabulation, ushering in the era of data storage, databases, and supercomputers.
R5MA4 TIL: Bees can turn any worker bee egg into a new queen by feeding it a special diet. If the current queen dies or isn’t doing her job the hive can literally just make a new queen to replace her.