› added 8 years ago

102

TIL Cuba has a 99.7% literacy rate

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

yLRM TIL in ancient Rome, a gladiator was only someone who fought against other men. If you were in the arena facing wild beasts, you were called a bestiarii. There were two types of bestiarii: those condemned to die in such a manner, and those doing it voluntarily, for pay or for glory.
VMwG4 TIL Popeye used to eat spinach because German chemist Wolf miscalculated the amount of iron(to 10x) in spinach
8dlL TIL that Earth used to be covered with giant mushrooms instead of trees.
4kdnN TIL that in 2018 Utah became the first state in the Michelin Guides' 118-year history to receive three stars as a tourist destination. It's described as "essential, exceptional, worth a journey in itself."
MegL8 TIL during the tornado outbreak of 1974, forecasters in Indiana, frustrated because they could not keep up with all of the simultaneous tornado activity, put the entire state under a blanket tornado warning. This was the only time in U.S. history that an entire state was under a tornado warning.