› added 5 months ago

63

TIL there is a group of wolves in British Columbia known as "sea wolves" and 90% of their food comes from the sea.

Read more dangerrangerbear.com

via reddit.com

m1ZJM TIL that the Marquis of Queensbury once told Oscar Wilde "If I catch you and my son again in any public restaurant I will thrash you". Wilde responded: "I don't know what the Queensberry rules are, but the Oscar Wilde rule is to shoot on sight".
N70WP TIL that Ettore Boiardi marketed his products under the brand "Chef Boy-Ar-Dee" so that Americans could pronounce his name properly.
R5L58 TIL that during the medieval period, there existed a female pope named Pope Joan. Legend has it that she disguised herself as a man and rose to the papacy in the 9th century. Her true identity was allegedly revealed when she gave birth during a procession.
LQVr0 TIL the greatest temperature variation in 24-hour period was 57.2°C (103°F), in Loma, Montana. Over the course of the day, the town experienced a rise from -47.7°C (-54°F) to 9.4°C (49°F).
6OeW TIL in 1925 an all-black baseball team in Wichita, Kansas played an exhibition against a local KKK Klavern, with Irish Catholics serving as umpires. The black team won 10-8.