› added 1 year ago

47

TIL that President Gerald Ford was born Leslie Lynch King Jr.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

7rkar TIL that "sleepunders" are a thing. Kids arrive already in pajamas and do sleepover activities, but everyone leaves before bedtime.
a81Wb TIL the world’s oldest country is San Marino. This small country covering just 62 square kilometres was founded in 301 AD.
epK96 TIL that 1000 kilometers is equal to 1 megametre (Mm).
W7NeA TIL Apollo 13 astronaut Fred Haise would've have walked on the Moon as commander of Apollo 19 before budget cuts cancelled that flight
OGOP7 TIL the word helicopter is not derived from combining “heli” and “copter” but by combining helico from the Greek for “spiral” and pteron from the Greek for “wing.”