› added 7 years ago

131

TIL Delaware was founded by Swedes and Finns in the 1630s. Both Sweden and Finland issued stamps in 1938 to commemorate it.

Read more genealogia.fi

via reddit.com

N7WpQ TIL that Al-Qaeda were surprised by the collapse of the Twin Towers. Among those planning the attacks, Osama Bin Laden had been the most "optimistic", due to his experience in engineering, and had predicted that the fire would collapse the area where the planes hit and all the floors above only
w8BP TIL only 2% of members of the Church of Sweden regularly attend Sunday service
epeeJ TIL that Sweden has 267,570 islands, the most of any country in the world
E1y7 TIL that it would take about 732 quintillion packets of Kool-Aid and 91.5 quadrillion metric tons of sugar to turn the ocean into cheery Kool-Aid.
LkRYV TIL that in Quitman, Georgia, US it's illegal for a chicken to cross the road.