› added 4 years ago

54

TIL that Mississippi had no official state flag from 1904 to 2001 due to a legislative oversight. In 1906, Mississippi repealed all general laws that were not reenacted by the new code. The flag statute was inadvertently omitted.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

kO1P4 TIL that in Hawaiian Pidgin, an english based creole language, the Bible is called “Da Jesus Book”
0wlDp TIL that famed New Jersey singer Frank Sinatra, is the Great Uncle of another famed New Jersey singer, Jon Bon Jovi.
VM87p TIL Viking women’s faces were more masculine than today’s women, while Viking men's faces looked more feminine than today's men, with a less prominent jaw and brow ridges. The ambiguous facial features mean that it is difficult to decide upon a Viking skeleton’s sex based on the skull alone
wvZY TIL the Temple University Owls mascot was chosen because Temple began as a night school for young people of limited means
jNB8v TIL that the Wehrmacht suffered 80% of its military deaths in WW2 on the Eastern Front