› added 4 years ago

45

TIL that pirate Henry Every led a famous raid on a convoy of Mughal ships in 1695, escaping with the equivalent of £91.9 million and led to the first worldwide manhunt in recorded history.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

ZJVR TIL 52% of the posts that make the front page of Reddit have been submitted at least once before.
rRMMd TIL Since 1950 there has been a 83% rise of sedentary jobs in the United States.
b9Mo9 TIL erotic artist Toshio Maeda in the 80s started to feature tentacles in his intercourse scenes to avoid being censored by the Japanese government. His "a tentacle is not a penis" argument worked and started the trend of Japanese anime, manga, and video games featuring tentacles.
WkVv4 TIL an underground street artist movement that began in Texas known as "Knitta Please" and artists simply known as Knittas. They used knitting in place of spray paint for graffiti tagging. Their was to make street art "warm and fuzzy."
b9Qa7 TIL Lobster was a throwaway food in Colonial England.