› added 12 years ago

100

TIL the Neapolitan mastiff almost died out in World War 2

Read more m.wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

WkeMA TIL That Russians and Mongols Dominate Sumo Wrestling
ANPX7 TIL that C.S. Lewis and Aldous Huxley both died on November 22nd, 1963. However, their deaths were overshadowed by the more prominent death of John F. Kennedy on the same day.
mxyyO TIL that roads are built to accommodate whatever uses them and back in Ancient Rome this was a chariot or two horses asses, which was than used to gauge railway, which was than used to gauge the solid rocket boosters on the space shuttle.
e0EQb TIL that the British town of Berwick Upon Tweed has changed between being part of Scotland and England 14 times. At one point its status was so ambiguous that declarations of war had to specify that nations were at war with "Scotland, England, and Berwick Upon Tweed."
b61o4 TIL that the last Queen Consort of Sikkim, a country that ceased to exist in 1975, was an American who was born in San Francisco