› added 2 years ago

50

TIL that Xmas is has historically been used as far back as the 16th century and the X is a Greek substitution for their letter χ pronounced “chi” in place of the first character of the Greek for Christ - Χριστός

Read more wordhistories.net

via reddit.com

l7K9a TIL prior to 1972, the NFL did not calculate ties in a team's winning percentage. This is why the Spartans whose Win-Loss-Tie record was 6-1-4 (.857 win %) and the Bears at 6-1-6 (.857) went to the first NFL playoff game in 1932 and the Packers at 10-3-1 (.769) were not declared the NFL champions.
p8KBZ TIL 70% of adults in the U.S. have experienced some type of traumatic event at least once in their lives.
KYEXa TIL that Prince is credited for “discovering” Carmen Electra when she began her career as a singer after moving to Minneapolis where they met and he produced her self-titled debut studio album, released in 1993.
DQrv TIL in 1995, Newsweek published an article to suggest that the Internet was doomed to die. “So how come my local mall does more business in an afternoon than the entire Internet handles in a month?”
OGnRe TIL that giraffes used to be called "camelopards", because medieval Europeans once believed them to be mythical hybrid creatures that were born from the union of a leopard and a camel. As such, giraffes are still called "camelopards" in European heraldry.