› added 5 years ago

226

TIL that some commuters in Rome can now exchange plastic bottles for metro and bus tickets. The scheme started in 3 stations. One month after launching, 100,000 bottles had been exchanged.

Read more aawsat.com

via reddit.com

QGjL TIL Oxford University is older than the Aztecs. Oxford: 1249. Founding of Tenochtitlán: 1325.
W9N9 TIL that Porygon, from Pokémon, is spelled that way to reflect how Japanese people pronounce the “L” sound as an “R” sound. (So, Porygon is really Polygon).
MeQrm TIL that the superhero Black Panther predates the founding of the Black Panther Party, and Marvel even changed the name for a while to "Black Leopard" in order to avoid confusion
W7OZA TIL that a Romanian Orthodox priest and four nuns were jailed after they accidentally killed another nun in 2005 during an exorcism. They mistook her schizophrenia symptoms for demonic possession.
wokVP TIL there was an armed group of Philipines called MILF