› added 3 years ago

229

TIL until 2005 the only living people to appear on British stamps were the Queen and the drummer of Queen

Read more thefocus.news

via reddit.com

QJODd TIL, in 2020, a man died of cardiac arrest as a result of drastically low potassium levels, caused by eating a bag of black licorice candy a day for three weeks.
ne7wG TIL In Game Of Thrones, the Meereenese rider challenging Daenerys was actually saying a Low Valyrian translation of the French guy's insults from "Monty Python And The Holy Grail".
yl6X TIL the word Saudade, a Portuguese word with no English translation, means the empty sadness and longing for that which may never return that accompanies nostalgia.
yVYEM TIL about a group of proteins called E3 ubiquitin ligases. They recognize misfolded or damaged proteins in the body. The human genome contains over 600 genes responsible for encoding these proteins. The mutation of the E3 ubiquitin ligase called "parkin" causes familial Parkinson's Disease.
r171 TIL when elected President of the United States, George Washington was the owner and operator the largest whiskey distillery in the country