› added 1 year ago

81

TIL these days. Today I learned the letter B comes after A

Read more twinkl.co.za

via reddit.com

ANdbo TIL that the average West Virginian eats MORE than 1 hot dog a day (481 per capital per year.)
MXJb TIL Maximillian Kolbe, a Catholic Priest, gave his life for a man he had never met in Auschwitz. He stated “I am an old man, no one will miss me. He has a wife and family. Take me instead.”
D1RwP TIL that Papua New Guinea is the most linguistically diverse country. It has more languages than the entire continent of Europe.
rRWgx TIL of William Kamkwamba, who taught himself to build windmills from library books. He built his first windmill, at age 15, out of junk from the scrap yard and brought power to his Malawian village. Later on he built another windmill to power water pumps to irrigate fields.
OEJ1 TIL the Chinese had guns and a firearm that looks like a modern rifle in the 1300s