› added 1 year ago

78

TIL the singular of “spaghetti” is “spaghetto”

Read more 123rf.com

via reddit.com

oRgYE TIL Old west quick-draw duels, although often romanticized by western movies are actually a myth.
d8pwd TIL the city of San Francisco is also its own county. It is a consolidated city-county and is the only one in California.
6ElBw TIL that Elvis Presley recorded over 600 songs throughout his career and did not write a single one of them on his own.
NXAo1 TIL the earliest evidence of pavement markings are from Mexico around 1600 AD. It consisted of a centerline of stone of a lighter color
Z8jAD TIL Roger Cotes, a young astronomy professor at Cambridge, forced Newton to confront his mistakes in his work, Principia, and corrected many of them for him. Cotes bombarded Newton with letters for years, repeatedly challenging his experimental results as well as his theoretical calculations