› added 1 year ago

34

TIL the statue atop the US Capitol building was going to have a liberty cap (the old Roman symbol of an emancipated slave), but future Confederate President Jefferson Davis made the sculptor remove it.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

nWOo TIL that Ole Miss operates the United States’ only legal marijuana farm, on behalf of the government.
d8rkB TIL About Antonio Meucci, a poor inventor who created a working prototype of a telephone years before Alexander Graham Bell, but lost his patent due to not being able to pay a ten dollar fee to keep the caveat.
NL9P TIL that whale milk has 30-50% fat content and is often the consistency of toothpaste
69yj7 TIL that Niger has highest total fertility rate and its more than 3 times the replacement rate
691RJ TIL, from 461 to 468, the Pope Was Hilarius.