› added 6 years ago

68

TIL The Mexican Constitution was the first document in history that said every person has the right to an education.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

16GdP TIL Some sharks can reproduce asexually through parthenogenesis. Parthenogenesis is a natural form of asexual reproduction in which development of an embryo from an unfertilized egg.
58GQ TIL that comedian Eddie Izzard can perform in 5 different languages and is working on learning 2 more
lokaK TIL of Reet Jurvetsen, a 19-year-old woman who was murdered in 1969. Her body remained unidentified for 46 years, until her older sister was contacted by friends who noticed a similarity between Reet and an online mortuary photograph of the body.
oMlo TIL that the color orange was named after the orange fruit. Up until the 1500’s, the color was referred to as “saffron” or simply “yellow-red.”
0wnRM TIL Joaquin Phoenix grew up in a cult involved with pedophilia and his parents traveled to Venezuela to recruit followers (not knowing about the pedophilia) - The Children of God